sieur de rene robert cavelier

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(Re·né) Ro·bert Ca·ve·lier

[ruh-ney raw-ber ka-vuh-lyey] , Sieur de, 1643–87, French explorer of North America.

a city in S Quebec, in E Canada: suburb of Montreal.

a city in N Illinois.

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La Salle¹ (lə ˈsæl)

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	a city in SE Canada, in Quebec: a S suburb of Montreal. Pop (with Émard): 100 327 (2006)

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La Salle² (French la sal)

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	Sieur Robert Cavelier de (rɔbɛr kavəlje də). 1643--87, French explorer and fur trader in North America; founder of Louisiana (1682)

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"It must be confessed that the Pilgrims possessed but few of the qualities of the modern pioneer. They were not the ancestors of the American backwoodsmen. They did not go at once into the woods with their axes. They were a family and church, and were more anxious to keep together, though it were on the sand, than to colonize a New World.... It is true they were busy at first about their building, and were hindered in that by much foul weather; but a party of emigrants to California or Oregon, with no less work on their hands,—and more hostile Indians,—would do as much exploring the first afternoon, and the Sieur de Champlain would have sought an interview with the savages, and examined the country as far as the Connecticut, and made a map of it, before Billington had climbed his tree.... Nevertheless, the Pilgrims were pioneers, and the ancestors of pioneers, in a far grander enterprise."

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