Definition of Louis Joliet

1. Noun. French explorer (with Jacques Marquette) of the upper Mississippi River valley (1645-1700).

Exact synonyms: Joliet, Jolliet, Louis Jolliet
Generic synonyms: Adventurer, Explorer

Lexicographical Neighbors of Louis Joliet

Louis Bleriot
Louis Braille
Louis Burt Mayer
Louis Charles Alfred de Musset
Louis Comfort Tiffany
Louis Eugene Felix Neel
Louis Henri Sullivan
Louis Henry Sullivan
Louis I
Louis II
Louis III
Louis IV
Louis IX
Louis Isadore Kahn
Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre
Louis Joliet (current term)
Louis Jolliet
Louis Leakey
Louis Pasteur
Louis Quatorzian
Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey
Louis Stanton Auchincloss
Louis Sullivan
Louis Untermeyer
Louis V
Louis VI
Louis VII
Louis VIII
Louis Victor de Broglie
Louis X

Literary usage of Louis Joliet

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

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 ..."

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