Explorer - 16th-18th century
22 famous people found
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Pierre LE MOYNE D'IBERVILLE
French soldier, ship captain, explorer, colonial administrator, knight of the order of Saint-Louis, adventurer, privateer, trader, member of Compagnies Franches de la Marine and founder of the French colony of Louisiana in New France
1661 - 1706 -
Jacques MARQUETTE
French-Canadian Jesuit missionary who founded Michigan's first European settlement
1637 - 1675 -
René-Robert CAVELIER DE LA SALLE
17th-century French explorer and fur trader in North America
1643 - 1687 -
Jeanne MANCE
French nurse and settler of New France, founder of Montreal
1606 - 1673 -
Auguste de Saint-Hilaire
French botanist and traveler
1779 - 1853 -
Martin PREVOST
New France settler
1611 - 1691 -
Jean-Baptiste CHARCOT
French scientist, medical doctor and polar scientist
1867 - 1936 -
Jeanne BARRET
First woman to have completed a voyage of circumnavigation of the globe
1740 - 1807 -
Isidore CLUT
Canadian Roman Catholic priest
1832 - 1903 -
Louis Aleno de Saint-Aloüarn
French Navy officer and explorer
1738 - 1772 -
Louis Dubois
Huguenot colonist in New Netherland who, with two of his sons and nine other refugees, founded the town of New Paltz, New York
1626 - 1696 -
Marc Joseph MARION DU FRESNE
Breton-born French explorer
1724 - 1772 -
Jean François Sylvestre DENIS DE TROBRIAND
French naval officer and navigator
1765 - 1799 -
Guy DE CONTENSON
French explorer
1844 - 1921 -
Edouard BOUET-WILLAUMEZ
French admiral
1808 - 1871 -
François PERON
French naturalist and explorer
1775 - 1810 -
Charles PLUMIER
French botanist
1646 - 1704 -
Charles Marie DE LA CONDAMINE
French explorer, geographer, and mathematician
1701 - 1774 -
Jean Baptiste Christian FUSÉE-AUBLET
French pharmacist, botanist and explorer
1723 - 1778 -
André MICHAUX
French botanist and explorer
1746 - 1802