Découverte de quelques pays et nations de l´Amerique Septentrionale [The Discovery of Several Countries and Nations in North America]
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- 1673
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After Joliet and Marquette returned from their 1673 Mississippi voyage, French officials refrained from publishing their findings. Several manuscripts telling their story circulated in Paris, however, based on a report by Fr. Claude Dablon of an interview with Joliet. Melchisédec Thévenot, an editor who specialized in printing voyages to exotic places, secured one of these unauthorized manuscripts and adapted Marquette's text for the little volume excerpted here. To make it appeal to audiences who were not fond of the Jesuits, he stripped out virtually all Marquette's religious remarks and turned it into a purely geographical account like the other's he had published. Thevenot's book printed the news of the Marquette and Joliet voyage for the first time, and also published the first map to show the full course of the Mississippi (given elsewhere at Turning Points). We provide here images of the original French pages from 1681 for students who might like to stretch their langua
- Creator
Thevenot, Melchisedec, 1620-1692
- Partner
- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- Wisconsin Historical Society
- Collection
- Rare Book Collection
- Publisher
- Estienne Michallet
- Subjects
- Native Americans
French Americans
Corn
Fruit
Wild Rice
Birds
Insects
Mammals
Marine Animals
Rock Paintings
Indian dance
Jewelry
Dwellings
Clothing and dress
Food
Implements, utensils, etc
Missionaries
Priests
Rites and ceremonies
Prairie
Rivers
Canoes and canoeing
Illinois
Kickapoo
Mascouten
Menominee
Miami
Shawnee - Location
- Paris
Brown County; Columbia County; Crawford County; Dane County; Grant County; Green Lake County; Iowa County; Marquette County; Outagamie County; Richland County; Sauk County; Winnebago County;
Wisconsin; Arkansas; Illinois; Iowa, Kentucky; Mississippi; Missouri; Tennessee - Type
- text
- Language
- French
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- Thevenot, Melchisedec, 1620-1692. Découverte de quelques pays et nations de l´Amerique Septentrionale [The Discovery of Several Countries and Nations in North America]. 1673. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/tp/id/39522. (Accessed March 29, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Thevenot, Melchisedec, 1620-1692, (1673) Découverte de quelques pays et nations de l´Amerique Septentrionale [The Discovery of Several Countries and Nations in North America]. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/tp/id/39522
- MLA citation style
- Thevenot, Melchisedec, 1620-1692. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/tp/id/39522>.