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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), America, discoverers of. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Charlevoix , Pierre Francois Xavier de (search)
Charlevoix, Pierre Francois Xavier de
Traveller; born in Saint-Quentin, France, Oct. 29, 1682.
He was sent as a Jesuit missionary to Quebec in 1705; later returned to France; and in 1720 again went to Canada.
On his second visit he ascended the St. Lawrence River; travelled through Illinois; and sailed down the Mississippi to New Orleans; and returned to France in 1722.
His publications include Histoire de la nouvelle France.
He died in La Fleche, France, Feb. 1, 1761.
See Jesuit missions.
New Orleans.
Governor Bienville prepared to found a town on the lower Mississippi in 1718, and sent a party of convicts to clear up a swamp on the site of the present city of New Orleans.
When Charlevoix visited the spot in 1722, the germ of the city consisted of a large wooden warehouse, a shed for a church, two or three ordinary houses, and a quantity of huts built without order.
But Bienville believed that it would one day become, perhaps, too, at no distant day, an opulent city, the metropolis of a great and rich colony, and removed the seat of government from Biloxi to New Orleans.
Law's settlers in Arkansas (see law, John), finding themselves abandoned, went down to New Orleans and received allotments on both sides of the river, settled on cottage farms, and raised vegetables for the supply of the town and soldiers.
Thus the rich tract near New Orleans became known as the German coast.
After Spain had acquired possession of Louisiana by treaty with France (1763), the
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Shea , John Dawson Gilmary 1824 -1892 (search)