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Name: Jacques Marquette
Birth Date: 1637
Death Date: May, 1675
Place of Death: Ludington, Michigan, United States
Nationality: French
Gender: Male
Occupations: missionary

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Biography of Jacques Marquette
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Jacques Marquette (1637-1675) was a French Jesuit, missionary, and explorer who followed the Illinois and Mississippi rivers on a journey of discovery. Jacques Marquette was the son of a seigneur of Laon. In 1654 he entered the Jesuit novitiate at...


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Jacques Marquette Summary
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Jacques Marquette Born June 10, 1637, Laon, France Died May 18, 1675, territory of Illinois Indians, North America In 1672 Louis Jolliet was chosen to lead a French-Canadian expedition to explore the Mississippi River and to discover whether it emptied...
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Jacques Marquette Summary
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1637-1675 French Jesuit missionary who accompanied French-Canadian explorer Louis Jolliet on the first voyage down the Mississippi River. In 1673, The two men traveled far enough to determine that the river emptied into the Gulf of Mexico, rather than...
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Jolliet, Louis and Marquette, Jacques Summary
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Louis Jolliet 1645 Beauport, Canada 1700 Quebec, Canada Explorer Jacques Marquette June 1, 1637 Laon, France May 18, 1675 on Illinois River Jesuit missionary French-Canadian explorer Louis Jolliet and Jacques Marquette, a French Jesuit missionary, were...
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Jacques Marquette Information
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Father Jacques Marquette (June 10, 1637–May 18, 1675) and Louis Jolliet were the first Europeans to see and map the northern portion of the Mississippi River. Father Marquette was born in Laon, France, and joined the Society of Jesus at age...


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The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Marquette
03/03/2001: 492 words, approx. 2 pages
Marquette, Conference USA reach D-Day By LORI NICKEL of the Journal Sentinel staff Saturday, March 3, 2001 Charlotte -- One day is left in the regular season in Conference USA, and not much is decided. Cincinnati leads the American...
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The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Marquette madness
03/31/2003: 744 words, approx. 3 pages
Marquette madness Hours after victory, fans scoop up Final Four regalia By TOM HELD theld@journalsentinel.com, Journal Sentinel Monday, March 31, 2003 Students, alumni and fans-by-marriage showed up at the Marquette Golden Eagles Spirit Shop a half-hour before the freshly printed...
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Investor's Business Daily
Marquette's Peaceful Mapping
5/9/2007: 1,191 words, approx. 4 pages
In America, our idea of frontier explorers has a Davy Crockett image: rugged men of action, handy with a gun and ready to use it on any inconvenient natives.Yet the man who first mapped one of the country's most important frontiers -- the great Mississippi...
 


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