France wanted a larger empire, spices and riches, and to expand Christianity. They also wanted animal furs. They enjoyed wearing hats and coats made out of animal skins. The French may not have had good taste, ... Read about the explorers of the Mississippi River, La Salle, Marquette, and Jolliet and the explorer of the St.
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Giovanni da Verranzano; In 1524 Verranzano explored the New World for France. He searched for a route to the Indies through the continent. Verranzano sailed up and down the East Coast of America looking for a passage that would take him further west. ... He could not find one so he returned to France. ... Back to Chart...
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Date Explorer Nationality Achievement ... 1603-1616 Samuel de Champlain French Explored eastern coast of North America and the coast of the St. Lawrence River to Lake Huron-Reached Lake Champlain...
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Pages in category "French explorers" ... Henry Russell (explorer) ... Categories: French people by occupation | Explorers by nationality...
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; Samuel Champlain was born at Brouage, a small seaport town in the old province of Saintonge, in 1567. There is little known about the The next day the French and the Micmac traded and celebrated. ... Frontenac was returned to Canada in 1689. He held Quebec against the British in the first of the French and Indian Wars.
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Discoverers by Alphabet - Scroll down and click on the explorer you wish to learn about. ... European Explorers - Links to French, Spanish, English, and Portuguese explorers.
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Samuel de Champlain: Explorer. Samuel de Champlain (1567?-1635) was a French explorer and navigator who mapped much of northeastern North America and started a settlement in Quebec. ... Zoom Explorer ... After a French-British peace treaty in 1632, Quebec was once again French, and Champlain returned as its governor (1633).
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Jean Nicollet [also spelled Nicolet] (1598 - 1642) was a French explorer, translator, and negotiator who was the first European to travel through the Great Lakes area, visiting Lake Michigan and what are now Wisconsin and Illinois, possibly reaching the Mississippi River.
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Britannica online encyclopedia article on Jacques Cartier (French explorer), 1491Saint-Malo, Brittany, France Sept. 1, 1557near Saint-MaloFrench mariner, whose explorations of the North American coast and the St. Lawrence River (1534, 1535, 1541–42) laid the basis for later French claims to Canada. ... Learn about Honfleur,
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Britannica online encyclopedia article on Samuel de Champlain (French explorer), 1567Brouage, FranceDecember 25, 1635Quebec, New France [now in Quebec, Can.]French explorer, acknowledged founder of the city of Quebec (1608), and consolidator of the French colonies in the New World. ... New France (French colonies,
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