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Definition of Jacques Marquette
1. Noun. French missionary who accompanied Louis Joliet in exploring the upper Mississippi River valley (1637-1675).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jacques Marquette
Literary usage of Jacques Marquette
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Public School Methods (1921)
"Jacques Marquette During the early period of American history, ... This was Father
Jacques Marquette. He was a member of a distinguished family in the ..."
2. The Founders: Portraits of Persons Born Abroad who Came to the Colonies in by Charles Knowles Bolton (1919)
"... FATHER Jacques Marquette, missionary to the Indians, was born, i June, 1637,
on the Rock of Laon, in France, the son of Nicolas Marquette, ..."
3. History of Iowa from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth by Benjamin F. Gue (1903)
"CHAPTER FATHER Jacques Marquette, a French Jesuit, who had long lived on the
frontier, in 1669 determined to explore the far west to the great river. ..."
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