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Pierre De Lauzon
Pierre de Lauzon (known as ''Gannenrontié'' among the Iroquois) (bapt. September 13, 1687, Leignes-sur-Fontaine, Vienne, France—September 5, 1742, Quebec) was a noted eighteenth-century Jesuit missionary in New France. Although sometimes mentioned as Jean, in his official acts he invariably signed Pierre. From 1732 to 1739 he was superior of all the Jesuit missions in Canada. Background Lauzon was the son of lawyer Pierre de Lauzon and his wife Marguerite Riot. After classical studies at the Jesuit college in Poitiers, he entered the novitiate with the Jesuits at Bordeaux on November 26, 1703. He studied logic and physics in Limoges, 1705 to 1707, and was a professor from 1707 to 1710. After a third year studying philosophy in Limoges, he taught rhetoric there until 1712. He then studied theology in Bordeaux, and, four years later, was ordained a priest. In Canada After ordination Lauzon was sent to Canada, in 1716. From 1716 to 1718 he was Father Pierre-Daniel Richer's a ...
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Iroquois
The Iroquois ( or ), officially the Haudenosaunee ( meaning "people of the longhouse"), are an Iroquoian-speaking confederacy of First Nations peoples in northeast North America/ Turtle Island. They were known during the colonial years to the French as the Iroquois League, and later as the Iroquois Confederacy. The English called them the Five Nations, comprising the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca (listed geographically from east to west). After 1722, the Iroquoian-speaking Tuscarora people from the southeast were accepted into the confederacy, which became known as the Six Nations. The Confederacy came about as a result of the Great Law of Peace, said to have been composed by Deganawidah the Great Peacemaker, Hiawatha, and Jigonsaseh the Mother of Nations. For nearly 200 years, the Six Nations/Haudenosaunee Confederacy were a powerful factor in North American colonial policy, with some scholars arguing for the concept of the Middle Ground, in that Europe ...
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Michel Bégon (1667-1747)
Begon or Bégon may refer to: Persons * , bishop of Nîmes 943-946 * Michel Bégon (1638–1710), French naturalist and administrator after whom begonias were named * Michel Bégon de la Picardière, his son; an intendant of New France * Claude-Michel Bégon de la Cour, French colonial officer in Quebec * Antoinette Begon, wife of Étienne Pascal * Beggo, Count of Toulouse, Count of Paris. Also known as "Begon", "Beggon" etc. Places * Begon {{otheruses The metallurgical site of Begon (or Begon II) is located in southern Chad, approximately 150 km from the regional center of Moundou. Site description Covering an area of roughly 1800 sq m, the metallurgical site of Begon was used as ... or Begon II, a Sara iron mining/ironworks site in Chad * Causse-Bégon, a commune in the Gard department in southern France {{dab, surname ...
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Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, Comte De Maurepas
Jean-Frédéric or Jean-Frederic may refer to: *Jean Frederic Bazille (1841–1870), French Impressionist painter * Jean-Frédéric Chapuis (born 1989), French freestyle skier * Jean Frédéric Auguste Delsarte (1903–1968), French mathematician *Jean-Frédéric Edelmann (1749–1794), French classical composer *Jean Frédéric Frenet (1816–1900), French mathematician, astronomer, and meteorologist * Louis-Jean-Frédéric Guyot (1905–1988), cardinal of the Catholic Church, archbishop of Toulouse * Jean-Frédéric Hermann (1768–1793), French physician and naturalist mainly interested in entomology * Joliot-Curie, Irene and Jean-Frederic (1900–1958), French physicist and husband of Irène Joliot-Curie *Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, Count of Maurepas (1701–1781), French statesman and Count of Maurepas * Jean-Frédéric Morency (born 1989), French basketball player *Jean-Frédéric Neuburger (born 1986), French pianist, organist, and composer * Jean Frederic Poupart de Neuflize ...
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Jean-Baptiste Tournois
Jean-Baptiste is a male French name, originating with Saint John the Baptist, and sometimes shortened to Baptiste. The name may refer to any of the following: Persons * Charles XIV John of Sweden, born Jean-Baptiste Jules Bernadotte, was King of Sweden and King of Norway * Charles-Jean-Baptiste Bouc, businessman and political figure in Lower Canada * Felix-Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Nève, orientalist and philologist * Gui-Jean-Baptiste Target, French lawyer and politician * Hippolyte Jean-Baptiste Garneray, French painter * Jean-Baptiste (songwriter), American music record producer, singer-songwriter * Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, French critic, journalist, and novelist * Jean-Baptiste Bagaza, chairman of Supreme Revolutionary Council in Burundi until 1976 and president of Burundi (1976-1987) * Jean-Baptiste Baudry, son of Guillaume Baudry, Canadian gunsmith bevear goldsmith * Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès, French geographer, author and translator * Jean-Baptiste Bessières, duke of ...
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Pierre François De Rigaud, Marquis De Vaudreuil-Cavagnal
Pierre de Rigaud de Vaudreuil de Cavagnial, marquis de Vaudreuil (22 November 1698 – 4 August 1778) was a Canadian-born colonial governor of French Canada in North America. He was governor of French Louisiana (1743–1753) and in 1755 became the last Governor-General of New France. In 1759 and 1760 the British conquered the colony in the Seven Years' War (known in the United States as the French and Indian War). Life and work He was born to the Governor-General of New France, Philippe de Rigaud Vaudreuil and his wife, Louise-Élisabeth, the daughter of Pierre de Joybert de Soulanges et de Marson, in Quebec. He was the uncle of Louis-Philippe de Vaudreuil. Vaudreuil rose quickly through the New France military and civil service, in part owing to his father's patronage but also due to his own innate ability. Commissioned an officer of the French army while still a youth, in 1733 he was appointed governor of Trois-Rivières, and in 1742 of French Louisiana, serving there fr ...
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Jean-Baptiste De Saint-Pé
Jean-Baptiste is a male French name, originating with Saint John the Baptist, and sometimes shortened to Baptiste. The name may refer to any of the following: Persons * Charles XIV John of Sweden, born Jean-Baptiste Jules Bernadotte, was King of Sweden and King of Norway * Charles-Jean-Baptiste Bouc, businessman and political figure in Lower Canada * Felix-Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Nève, orientalist and philologist * Gui-Jean-Baptiste Target, French lawyer and politician * Hippolyte Jean-Baptiste Garneray, French painter * Jean-Baptiste (songwriter), American music record producer, singer-songwriter * Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, French critic, journalist, and novelist * Jean-Baptiste Bagaza, chairman of Supreme Revolutionary Council in Burundi until 1976 and president of Burundi (1976-1987) * Jean-Baptiste Baudry, son of Guillaume Baudry, Canadian gunsmith bevear goldsmith * Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès, French geographer, author and translator * Jean-Baptiste Bessières, duke of ...
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Pierre-Herman Dosquet
Pierre-Herman Dosquet (4 March 1691 – 4 March 1777) was the fourth Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Quebec, bishop of Quebec. Life Pierre-Herman Dosquet was born in Liège, Prince-Bishopric of Liège, the son of Laurent and Anne-Jeanne Goffar. His father was a merchant. In 1715, Dosquet entered at the Seminary of Saint-Sulpice, Paris, and was ordained the following year. In 1721, he joined the Society of the Priests of Saint Sulpice, Sulpicians and volunteered for the Canadian mission. He arrived in Canada that July and spent the next two years as chaplain to Congregation of Notre Dame of Montreal. Ill health and the climate forced him to return France. He was appointed superior of the Seminary of Lisieux in France, became a director of the Paris Foreign Missions Society, Séminaire des Missions Étrangères, and was sent to Rome as procurator-general. He was made procurator general for the apostolic vicars of the East Indies and consecrated titular Bishop of Samos by Pope Benedict ...
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Lake Of The Woods
Lake of the Woods (french: Lac des Bois, oj, Pikwedina Sagainan) is a lake occupying parts of the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Manitoba and the U.S. state of Minnesota. Lake of the Woods is over long and wide, containing more than 14,552 islands and of shoreline. It is fed by the Rainy River, Shoal Lake, Kakagi Lake and other smaller rivers. The lake drains into the Winnipeg River and then into Lake Winnipeg. Ultimately, its outflow goes north through the Nelson River to Hudson Bay. Lake of the Woods is also the sixth largest freshwater lake located (at least partially) in the United States, after the five Great Lakes, and the 36th largest lake in the world by area. It separates a small land area of Minnesota from the rest of the United States. The Northwest Angle and the town of Angle Township can be reached from the rest of Minnesota only by crossing the lake or by traveling through Canada. The Northwest Angle is the northernmost part of the contiguous United ...
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Jean-Pierre Aulneau
Jean-Pierre Aulneau de la Touche (21 April 1705 – 8 June 1736) was a Jesuit missionary priest who was briefly active in New France and killed before he could take part in his first major assignment which was to be an expedition to the Mandan. He died near Fort St. Charles, on Lake of the Woods in an area now in Ontario, Canada and Minnesota, United States. He was killed while traveling with Jean Baptiste de La Vérendrye, and is often referred to as "Minnesota's Forgotten Martyr." Early life Jean-Pierre Aulneau was born at his father's chateau at Moutiers-sur-le-Lay, Vendée, France. He studied at the minor seminary of Luçon prior to entering the Jesuit novitiate at Pau in 1720. He spent a number of years as an instructor in La Rochelle and Poitiers. After his ordination to the priesthood, he sailed for Canada New France in 1734. His crossing on ''Le Ruby'' was stormy and, as was typical, the ship's passengers and crew shared diseases in the close quarters. Aulneau landed a ...
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