French missionary who accompanied Louis Joliet in exploring the upper Mississippi River valley (1637-1675)

Usage examples of marquette.

A little later came Allouez and Dablon, and Druilletes who had been entertained at Boston by Winslow and Bradford and Dudley and John Eliot, and last of those to be selected from the increasing number of that brotherhood for mention, the young Pere Marquette, "son of an old and honorable family at Laon," of extraordinary talents as a linguist (having learned, as Parkman tells us, to speak with ease six Indian languages) and in devotion the "counterpart of Garnier and Jogues.

It is still the river of Marquette and Joliet, Nicolet, Groseilliers and Radisson, La Salle and Tonty, Hennepin and Accau, Gray Gowns and Black Gowns, Iberville and Bienville, St.

If we're going to announce the existence of Shannon's little project, then I'd better sit down with Arnaud Marquette and light a fire under my planning staff.

He had heard Marquette Heller tell how Dutch and the mob ran after the thug had told them of the phony Indian who had been hit by the Devil’.

Marquette asked quietly after a moment, and Theisman's expression turned unhappier still.