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    Pierre Laclède Liguest or Pierre Laclède (22 November 1729 – 20 June 1778) was a French fur trader who, with his young assistant and stepson Auguste Chouteau...
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  • Laclede, LaClede or La Clede may refer: Pierre Laclède, founder of St. Louis, Missouri Laclede's Landing, St. Louis LaClede Town in St. Louis LaClede...
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    February 14, 1764, by French fur traders Gilbert Antoine de St. Maxent, Pierre Laclède, and Auguste Chouteau. They named it for king Louis IX of France, and...
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    the northern part of the original settlement founded by the Frenchman Pierre Laclède, whose landing on the riverside the placename commemorates. Originally...
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    optometry school, providing its students with a doctorate (OD). The Pierre Laclede Honors College is UMSL's honors program. UMSL is classified among "R2:...
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    was organized February 24, 1849, and was named after Pierre Laclède, founder of St. Louis. Laclede County comprises the Lebanon, MO Micropolitan Statistical...
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  • winter was setting in. In December, Laclède and Chouteau scouted potential locations on the west bank, with Laclède determining the suitability of a site...
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    Though now the legal widow could have married Laclède, she refrained from doing so. By this time, Laclède had fallen into a lot of debt. She did not want...
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    began living with Pierre de Laclède Liguest (commonly known as Laclède) in a common-law marriage. Kieran Doherty suggests that Laclède informally adopted...
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    New Orleans. St. Louis was founded soon after by French fur traders, Pierre Laclède and stepson Auguste Chouteau from New Orleans in 1764. From 1764 to...
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