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12 famous people found

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  Jacques MARQUETTE

  French-Canadian Jesuit missionary who founded Michigan's first European settlement

  1637 - 1675
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  Rose-Philippine Duchesne

  French religious sister and educator whom Pope John Paul II canonized in 1988

  1769 - 1852
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  Pierre PIGNEAU DE BEHAINE

  French Catholic priest

  1741 - 1799
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  Jeremiah EVARTS

  Christian missionary, reformer, and activist for the rights of American Indians in the United States

  1781 - 1831
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  Simon Bruté de Rémur

  French missionary in the United States and the first bishop of the Diocese of Vincennes, Indiana

  1779 - 1839
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  Jacques-Ladislas-Joseph DE CALONNE

  French missionary

  1743 - 1822
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  Pierre POIVRE

  French horticulturist and botanist

  1719 - 1786
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  François Isidore GAGELIN

  French missionary of the Paris Foreign Missions Society in Vietnam

  1799 - 1833
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  Joseph Marie AMIOT

  French Jesuit missionary

  1718 - 1793
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  Etienne DE GRELLET

  Prominent French Quaker missionary

  1772 - 1855
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  Jean DE BREBEUF

  Jesuit missionary, martyred in Canada

  1593 - 1649
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  Laurent IMBERT

  French saint

  1796 - 1839