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Jean Nicollet

(Nicollet, Jean, 1598-1642)

Jean Nicolet, landing at the Bay of Green Bay in 1634. Painted by Franz Edward Rohrbeck (1852-1919) in 1910 into the mural in the rotunda of the Brown County Courthouse, Green Bay, Wisconsin. It shows Nicolet wearing a Chinese damask tunic strewn with flowers and birds, and discharging two pistols into the air.

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Jean Nicolet (Nicollet), Sieur de Belleborne (1598 – 29 October 1642) was a French coureur des bois noted for exploring Lake Michigan, Mackinac Island, Green Bay, and being the first European to set foot in what is now the U.S. state of Wisconsin. (From Wikipedia)

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Filed under: Nicollet, Jean, 1598-1642

History of the Discovery of the Northwest by John Nicolet in 1634, With a Sketch of His Life (Cincinnati: Robert Clarke and Co., 1881), by Consul Willshire Butterfield (HTML and page images at LOC)

4 additional books about Jean Nicollet in the extended shelves:

Jean Nicolet et le Canada de son temps (1618-1642) (J.-A. K.-Laflamme, imprimeur, 1905), by Auguste Gosselin (page images at HathiTrust)
History of the discovery of the Northwest by John Nicolet in 1634 : with a sketch of his life (R. Clarke & Co., 1881), by Consul Willshire Butterfield (page images at HathiTrust)
Jean Nicolet, 1618-1642 (Impr. de l'Eure, 1893), by Auguste Gosselin (page images at HathiTrust)
History of the Discovery of the Northwest by John Nicolet in 1634: With a Sketch of his Life, by Consul Willshire Butterfield (Gutenberg ebook)

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