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Definition of Louis Joliet
1. Noun. French explorer (with Jacques Marquette) of the upper Mississippi River valley (1645-1700).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Louis Joliet
Literary usage of Louis Joliet
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1. History of Iowa from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth by Benjamin F. Gue (1903)
"An intelligent French explorer and Indian trader, at Quebec, Louis Joliet, was
selected by M. Talon to accompany Marquette on this expedition. ..."
2. The Discovery of the Old Northwest: And Its Settlement by the French by James Baldwin (1901)
"But these reports only awakened curiosity and spurred to no determined effort to
discover the hidden water. II. Louis Joliet After the return of ..."