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    Nicolas Perrot (c. 1644–1717), a French explorer, fur trader, and diplomat, was one of the first European men to travel in the Upper Mississippi Valley...
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    Nicolas Perrot d'Ablancourt (5 April 1606, Châlons-en-Champagne – 17 November 1664, Paris) was a French translator of the Greek and Latin classics into...
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    originated along the East Coast and migrated west in pre-colonial times. Nicolas Perrot wrote that the names given to them by neighboring Algonquian peoples...
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  • Jules Perrot (1810–1892), French dancer and choreographer Kim Perrot (1967–1999), American basketball player Marcel Perrot, French fencer Nicolas Perrot (1644–1717)...
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    the King reigning over all nations".) Perrot's Ostensorium was presented by 17th-century fur trader Nicolas Perrot to the priests at the St. Francis Xavier...
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    European explorers in the upper Mississippi. The park is named for Nicolas Perrot, a French explorer who was the first to write about the area. The Trempealeau...
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    Précieux-Sang Sainte-Angèle-de-Laval Sainte-Gertrude Saint-Grégoire Nicolas Perrot (1644–1717), explorer, diplomat, and fur trader. Blessed Louis Zephyrinus...
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    decorative items, and later firearms and alcohol." Up to the time of Nicolas Perrot, the Odawa had a monopoly on all fur trade that came through Green Bay...
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    in the late 1600s after exploring the Great Lakes from Boucherville. Nicolas Perrot erected the first of a number of fur trade posts, Fort Saint Antoine...
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    clear view of its surroundings. Pointe-Claire was first described by Nicolas Perrot in his account of 1669, and the name Pointe-Claire appeared on a map...
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    winter in Ville Marie. The next confirmed sighting of La Salle was by Nicolas Perrot on the Ottawa River near the Rapide des Chats in early summer, 1670...
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  • 1086/375681. PMID 12858262. S2CID 37774233. Lagrue, Clément; Kaldonski, Nicolas; Perrot-Minnot, Marie J.; Motreuil, Sébastien; Bollache, Loïc (Nov 2007). "Modification...
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  • trading post established on the Baie des Puants in 1634 by Jean Nicolet. Nicolas Perrot, who was sent by Father Claude-Jean Allouez, continued the work that...
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    via the Illinois River were also used. In 1685, the French explorer Nicolas Perrot established a trading post in the area as part of the large and lucrative...
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    and Kickapoo. In 1671, Potawatomi guides first took the French trader Nicolas Perrot to the Miami villages near the site of present-day Chicago. Pierre François...
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  • century. Nicolas Perrot, a French traveler, met him in Chicago in 1671. He characterizes Tetinchoua as being "the most powerful of Indian chiefs". Perrot stated...
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    the Falls of St. Mary between Lake Huron and Lake Superior. Trader Nicolas Perrot helped attract the principal chiefs, and representatives of 14 Indigenous...
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  • Louis de La Porte de Louvigné Fort de Buade and St. Ignace Mission Nicolas Perrot (1690–???) Louis de Buade de Frontenac (second term) (1689–1698) 1694...
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  • Mississippi near what is now Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin in June, 1673. Nicolas Perrot, French commander of the west, established Fort St. Nicholas at Prairie...
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    Ernest Christopher, Count of Rietberg (1625–1640) (d. 1640) April 5 – Nicolas Perrot d'Ablancourt, Translator (d. 1664) April 6 – Amable de Bourzeys, French...
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    La Baie Verte (French for "The Green Bay"). Père Claude Allouez sent Nicolas Perrot to La Baie. After this, the French avoided the area for some decades...
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    v t e Académie française seat 20 Paul Hay du Chastelet (1634) Nicolas Perrot d'Ablancourt (1637) Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy (1665) Jean-Paul Bignon...
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    In his memoirs written during the second half of the 17th century, Nicolas Perrot made mention of the "One-Eyed Man's Island otherwise called Matches...
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  • stand on the grounds of the Grand Seminary on Sherbrooke Street. 1695 – Nicolas Perrot brings the Miami, Sauk, Menominee, Potawatomi and Fox chiefs to Montreal...
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    Catholic population. The mission was used as a base of operations by Nicolas Perrot in his explorations of the Upper Midwest in the 1680s. In 1686 he made...
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  • Institute) 1988 Simeon Perkins Businessman, diarist, politician 1946 Nicolas Perrot Explorer, diplomat, fur trader 1952 Thomas Peters Advocate for African-Americans...
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  • Trempealeau was founded in 1685 by Nicholas Perrot and a groupe of Canadiens. In the fall of 1685, Perrot and his men arrived at Mont Trempealeau by canoe...
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  • Ernest Christopher, Count of Rietberg (1625–1640) (d. 1640) April 5 – Nicolas Perrot d'Ablancourt, Translator (d. 1664) April 6 – Amable de Bourzeys, French...
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    married Marie Josèphe Edeline, a resident of Vincennes and widow of Nicolas Perrot. They had 3 daughters together. As a reward for his service in the American...
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    he erected a cross. The cross stood until about 1870. Around 1690, Nicolas Perrot visited the Potawatomi on Washington Island. In 1720, Pierre François...
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