Charlevoix, Pierre François Xavier de (1682–1761), a French Jesuit traveler and historian. He was born in St. Quentin. From 1705 to 1709 he taught at a Jesuit college in Quebec. He returned briefly to France, and in 1720, he was sent to America by the regent of France to visit Jesuit missions and seek new trade routes. His journal, published in his History of New France (1744), tells of his travels up the St. Lawrence, through the Great Lakes, and down the Mississippi River to New Orleans.
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