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Marquette, Jacques (1637–1675)| French Jesuit missionary and explorer. He went to Canada 1666, explored the upper lakes of the St Lawrence River, and in 1673 with Louis Jolliet (1645–1700), set out on a voyage down the Mississippi on which they made the first accurate record of its course. |
| In 1674 he and two companions camped near the site of present-day Chicago, making them the first Europeans to live there. |
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