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    Guillaume Delisle, also spelled Guillaume de l'Isle, (French: [ɡijom dəlil]; 28 February 1675, Paris – 25 January 1726, Paris) was a French cartographer...
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  • Gulf (French: Lac Guillaume-Delisle), a waterbody in Nunavik, in administrative region of Nord-du-Québec, in Quebec, Canada Sector Delisle, a sector of Alma...
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    businessman Guillaume Delisle (1675–1726), French cartographer Guillaume Depardieu (1971–2008), French actor Guillaume Dode de la Brunerie Guillaume Dubois...
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    Claude Delisle (1644–1720). Like many of his brothers, among them Guillaume Delisle, he initially followed classical studies. Soon however, he moved to...
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    "shit", -iinkwee, "face", and -na, "indefinite actor". The 1718 Guillaume Delisle map (pictured) labels it as "le Moingona R." During the mid-19th century...
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    Canada. It was formerly known as Richmond Gulf in English and Lac Guillaume-Delisle in French. In 2008, regional councillors asked the Commission de toponymie...
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    based on Delisle's were produced over the next several decades. As cartographer to the king and teacher of his children, Guillaume Delisle's ideas had...
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    Imperii Orientalis et Circumjacentium Regionum by Guillaume Delisle (1742)...
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    Mayo. The feature is named after the French cartographer Guillaume Delisle (also spelled Guillaume de L'Isle; 1675–1726) whose 1700 map of South America...
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  • poet of the Parnassian movement Claude Delisle (1644–1720), French cartographer and royal censor, father of Guillaume (q.v.) Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle...
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    Tripoly) is shown as including much of modern-day Libya on a map by Guillaume Delisle (1707). 1736 map 1747 map 1771 map Tripolitania in 1818 1907 map Karamanli...
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  • Rivière à l'Eau Claire) is a river flowing on the east shore of Lake Guillaume-Delisle (formerly designated "Richmond Gulf"), which empties into the Hudson...
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    village is located 15 km (9.3 mi) west of Richmond Gulf (French: Lac Guillaume-Delisle; Inuttitut: Tasiujaq (which resembles a lake)), an immense inland...
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    2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) Delisle, Guillaume (1675–1726) Auteur du texte (January 1, 1718). "Carte de la Louisiane...
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  • cartographer, Compte Guillaume Delisle. During this expedition, they charted and named Bayou Portage, Bayou Arcadia, and Bayou Delisle. The unincorporated...
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    designation. On Carte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Mississipi (1718) by Guillaume Delisle and on A Map of North America (1768) by John Blair, the St. Croix...
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    1765 globe by Guillaume Delisle, showing a fictional Northwest Passage....
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    climate change. The lake was first named in a map of New France made by Guillaume Delisle at the request of Louis XIV of France in 1703. The lake was named...
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  • Collins (British, 1643-1694) Vincenzo Coronelli (Venetian, 1650–1718) Guillaume Delisle (French, 1675–1726) Petter Gedda (Sweden, 1661–1697) Hessel Gerritsz...
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    Commission de toponymie – Quebec (in French). Retrieved 2020-04-22. "Lac Guillaume-Delisle". Commission de toponymie – Quebec (in French). Archived from the...
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    International Association of Mongolists: 24–31. "Carte de Tartarie" of Guillaume de L'Isle (1675–1726), Map Collection of the Library of Congress richardson...
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    expedition's discoveries eventually found their way to cartographer Guillaume Delisle, who used the information to create a map of the lower Missouri. In...
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  • directly south of the Chickasaws in maps drawn by French cartographer Guillaume Delisle in 1703 and 1707. The Capinan may have been the same tribe as the...
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    Adai Cropped detail map from a 1718 map by Guillaume Delisle. Adaie on left side. Total population extinct as a tribe, merged into the Caddo Regions with...
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  • Xaver Josef von Unertl, Bavarian politician (d. 1750) February 28 – Guillaume Delisle, French cartographer (d. 1726) March 31 – Pope Benedict XIV (d. 1758)...
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    1707 map of northwest Africa by Guillaume Delisle, including the Maghreb. After the Middle Ages, the Ottoman Empire loosely controlled the area east of...
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    arctic enclave. A vast area surrounding the lakes, Richmond Gulf (Lac Guillaume-Delisle), and Iberville Lake (Lac D'Iberville) are part of the 15,549 km2...
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  • Theophilus Desaguliers (1683–1744), natural philosopher (physicist) Guillaume Delisle (1675–1726), cartographer Girard Desargues (1591–1661), mathematician...
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  • map. He was subsequently accused of plagiarism by Claude Delisle, the father of Guillaume Delisle, another cartographer. Claude accused Nolin of copying...
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  • Quebec Grand Lake Bostonnais Grand Lac Nominingue Lake Guindon Lac Guillaume-Delisle Lake Hackett (Mékinac) Harrington Lake Jacqueline Lake Lake Jesuit...
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