Bacqueville de la Potherie, also known as Claude-Charles Le Roy, was a French

chronicler A chronicle ( la, chronica, from Greek ''chroniká'', from , ''chrónos'' – "time") is a historical account of events arranged in chronological order, as in a timeline. Typically, equal weight is given for historically important events and lo ...

New France New France (french: Nouvelle-France) was the area colonized by France in North America, beginning with the exploration of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence by Jacques Cartier in 1534 and ending with the cession of New France to Great Britain and Spai ...

. His most famous work is ''Histoire de I'Amérique septentrionale'', an account of French expeditions to the

Great Lakes The Great Lakes, also called the Great Lakes of North America, are a series of large interconnected freshwater lakes in the mid-east region of North America that connect to the Atlantic Ocean via the Saint Lawrence River. There are five lakes ...

and

Mississippi Mississippi () is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States, bordered to the north by Tennessee; to the east by Alabama; to the south by the Gulf of Mexico; to the southwest by Louisiana; and to the northwest by Arkansas. Miss ...

region in the late 17th century. This book was written in 1702 but not published until 1722.William Nelson Fenton, ''The Great Law and the Longhouse: a political history of the Iroquois Confederacy'' (University of Oklahoma Press, 1988), 331

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18th-century French historians Year of death unknown Year of birth unknown French male writers Historians of Colonial North America {{France-historian-stub