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NOVA Online | Voyage of Doom - English
URL: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/lasalle/

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Program about La Salle's wrecked La Belle.

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MSN Learning & Research - La Salle, René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de - English
URL: http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/refarticle.aspx?refid=761565370

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French explorer in North America, who navigated the length of the Mississippi River and claimed the Louisiana region for France.

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Handbook of Texas Online: LA SALLE, RENE ROBERT CAVELIER, SIEUR DE - English
URL: http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/LL/fla4.html

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Sieur de La Salle, explorer, was born in St. Herbland parish, Rouen, France, on November 22, 1643, the son of Catherine Geeset and Jean Cavelier. Cavelier was a wealthy wholesale merchant and "Master of the Brotherhood of Notre-Dame."

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La Salle, Robert Cavelier, sieur de - English
URL: http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0828919.html

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1643–87, French explorer in North America, one of the most celebrated explorers and builders of New France.

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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Rene-Robert-Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle - English
URL: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09009b.htm

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In his youth he displayed an unusual precocity in mathematics and a predilection for natural science; his outlook upon life was somewhat puritanical. Whether or not he was educated with a view to entering the Society of Jesus is a matter of doubt, though some religious order he must have subsequently joined, for to this fact is assigned the forfeiture of his estates. The career of a churchman was definitely abandoned, however, when, after receiving the feudal grant of a tract of land at La Chine on the St. Lawrence from the Sulpicians, seigneurs of Montreal--perhaps through the influence of a elder brother who was a member of the order at that place--he came to Canada as an adventurer and trader in 1666.

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1Up Info - La Salle, Robert Cavelier, sieur de (Explorers, Travelers, And Conquerors) - Encyclopedia - English
URL: http://www.1upinfo.com/encyclopedia/L/LaSalleR.html

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1643–87, French explorer in North America, one of the most celebrated explorers and builders of New France. He entered a Jesuit novitiate as a boy but later left the religious life. In 1666 he went to Canada, where he developed a seigniory at Lachine. In 1673 the governor of New France, Frontenac, made him commandant of Fort Frontenac (see Kingston, Ont., Canada).

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