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Article: Hennepin, Louis (1640-1701?)
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Louis Hennepin (1640-1701?)
French explorer and naturalist
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Background.
Louis Hennepin
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s fame rested on a journey into the wilderness of the upper Mississippi River valley and his subsequent narrative of his adventures, the
Description de la Louisiane
(1683). The story of his life in Europe remains obscure. He was born in Belgium, and when he was about twenty, he joined the Roman Catholic religious order of Franciscans. He served as a priest and military chaplain until 1675 when he immigrated to New France to become a missionary to the Native American tribes of the Saint Lawrence River, Great Lakes, and Mississippi River.
Explorer for God.
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