René Bréhant de Galinée was a member of the

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(Sulpician Order) at

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and an explorer and missionary to the Native Americans. In 1670, he and

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were the first Europeans to make a recorded transit of the

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. His map of the trip demonstrated that the

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were all connected. The

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is named for him.

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Catholic secondary school in

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is named after him.

References

*''Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography'' * * * * 1645 births 1678 deaths French Roman Catholic missionaries Roman Catholic missionaries in New France Sulpician missionaries {{NewFrance-stub