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    Jean de Quen (May c. 1603 in Amiens, France – 8 October 1659, in Quebec City) was a French Jesuit missionary, priest and historian. As head of Jesuit missions...
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    at the time of European arrival. It was given its French name after Jean de Quen, a Jesuit missionary who in 1647 was the first European to reach its...
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    L'Exaltation-de-la-Sainte-Croix-de-Tadoussac, named in memory of a cross planted by Jean de Quen, was founded by the Récollet Order. Their missionary brothers sang the...
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    activity in Sept-Îles was based on fishing and the fur trade. In 1650, Jean de Quen founded a mission there, called L'Ange- Gardien. By 1658, a fur trade...
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  • astronomer (b. 1602) 1656 – John George I, Elector of Saxony (b. 1585) 1659 – Jean de Quen, French missionary, priest, and historian (b. 1603) 1735 – Yongzheng...
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    Population history of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    military entrepreneurs under the leadership of friar Nicolás de Ovando, Hernán Cortés and Pedro de Alvarado respectively. Each event can be described as a...
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    Venice (b. 1589) October 1 – Juan de Palafox y Mendoza, Spanish politician, clergyman (b. 1600) October 8 Jean de Quen, French Jesuit missionary and historian...
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  • everyone. In 1641 Jean de Quen and Joseph Poncet were sent to assist him. An effort to establish a native settlement at the Cap de Trois-Rivières, on...
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    Venice (b. 1589) October 1 – Juan de Palafox y Mendoza, Spanish politician, clergyman (b. 1600) October 8 Jean de Quen, French Jesuit missionary and historian...
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  • the house of René Maheut. As soon as he heard of the clerics' arrival, Jean de Quen, the Superior of the Jesuits, hastened to welcome them and brought them...
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