Louis Jolliet (French pronunciation: [lwi ʒɔljɛ]; September 21, 1645 – after May 1700) was a French-Canadian explorer known for his discoveries in North America. In 1673, Jolliet and Jacques Marquette, a Jesuit Catholic priest and missionary, were the first non-Natives to explore and map the Upper Mississippi River. (From Wikipedia) More about Louis Joliet:
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Books by Louis Joliet Books about Louis Joliet: Filed under: Joliet, Louis, 1645-1700 The Explorations of Père Marquette (c1951), by Jim Kjelgaard (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS) Au Mississipi: La Premiere Exploration (1673) (in French; Paris: H. Champion, 1903), by Alfred Hamy, contrib. by Jacques Marquette and Ernest Gagnon
10 additional books about Louis Joliet in the extended shelves: Louis Jolliet, découvreur du Mississippi et du pays des Illinois, premier seigneur de l'île d'Anticosti : étude biographique et historiographique. (Beauchemin, limitée, 1913), by Ernest Gagnon (page images at HathiTrust)
Étude sur une carte inconnue, la première dressée par Louis Joliet en 1674 après son exploration du Mississippi avec le P. Jacques Marquette en 1673 (Maisonneuve et cie, 1880), by Gabriel Gravier (page images at HathiTrust)
The Jolliet-Marquette expedition 1673 (Franciscan fathers, 1928), by Francis Borgia Steck (page images at HathiTrust)
Voyage et découverte de quelques pays et nations de l'Amberique Septentrionale ([Impr. de Maulde et Renou], 1845), by Jacques Marquette and O. Rich (page images at HathiTrust)
The Jolliet-Marquette expedition, 1673. (Franciscan Fathers, 1928), by Francis Borgia Steck (page images at HathiTrust)
The Jolliet-Marquette expedition, 1673 (Catholic University of America, 1927), by Francis Borgia Steck (page images at HathiTrust)
Louis Jolliet, découvreur du Mississippi et du pays des Illinois, premier seigneur de l'île d'Anticosti: étude biographique et historiographique. (Québec, 1902), by Ernest Gagnon, Jean Baptiste Antoine Ferland, Thomas Chapais, Jean-B.-A. Ferland, Charles de Guise, and Jules Tailhan (page images at HathiTrust)
Address delivered before the Missouri Historical Society, July 19, 1878 : the anniversary of the discovery of the Mississippi by Marquette and Joliet (H.J. Hewitt, printer, 1878), by John Gilmary Shea (page images at HathiTrust)
Trails of the French explorers (Naylor Co., 1956), by Marion S. Scanlon (page images at HathiTrust)
200e anniversaire de la dećouverte du Mississipi par Jolliet et le P. Marquette : soirée littéraire et musicale a l'Université Laval le 17 Juin 1873. (L.H. Huot, 1873), by H. A. B. Verreau and Université Laval (page images at HathiTrust)
Books by Louis Joliet: Books in the extended shelves: Joliet, Louis, 1645-1700: New discovery of a country greater than Europe, situated in America, betwixt New-Mexico and the Frozen-Sea (London : Printed for M. Bentley, J. Tonson, H. Bonwick, T. Goodwin, and S. Manship, 1698., 1698), also by Louis Hennepin, S. Manship, Timothy Goodwin, Henry Bonwicke, Jacob Tonson, Jacques Marquette, Robert Cavelier La Salle, and John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust) Joliet, Louis, 1645-1700: A new discovery of a vast country in America : extending above four thousand miles, between New France & New Mexico : with a deseription [sic] of the Great Lakes, cataracts, rivers, plants, and animals : also, the manners, customs, and languages of the several native Indians, and the advantage of commerce with those different nations : with a continuation giving an account of the attempts of the Sieur de la Salle upon the mines of St. Barbe, &c., the taking of Quebec by the English, with the advantages of a shorter cut to China and Japan : both illustrated with maps and figures and dedicated to His Majesty King William (Canadiana House, 1969), also by Louis Hennepin and Jacques Marquette (page images at HathiTrust) Joliet, Louis, 1645-1700: Nouvelle découverte d'un très grand pays situé dans l'Amérique entre le Nouveau Mexique et la mer Glaciale. English (London : Printed for M. Bentley, J. Tonson, H. Bonwick, T. Goodwin and S. Manship, 1698), also by Louis Hennepin, Robert Cavelier La Salle, and Jacques Marquette (HTML at EEBO TCP)
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