Etienne brule born

This conference took place on Wednesday June 14 at the Town Hall. It was broadcast by videoconference to allow many Canadians to follow it live. He was born about , at Champigny-sur-Marne near Paris. He is believed to have made the voyage to Quebec in the company of Samuel de Champlain in It was the decisive move in his career.

He was to become an interpreter, or dragoman truchement in French , between the French and their Amerindian allies. But he was above all a pathfinder and a scout.

Fun facts about étienne brûlé

He played an essential role in the first documented journeys of exploration in New France by going ahead of Samuel de Champlain, Gabriel Sagard, Jean Nicolet, Nicolas Perrot and others of their ilk along the route to the Great Lakes. He appears to have been the first European to set eyes on the Ottawa Valley, Georgian Bay, Pennsylvania and four of the Great Lakes, and to give at least an oral description of them.

A Frenchman named Eitienne Brule, in or , did travel through the Susquehanna river valley. An account of this may be found in a note, page of Vol.