Vimont, Fr. Barthélemy, 1594-1667 | Wisconsin Historical Society

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Vimont, Fr. Barthélemy, 1594-1667

Vimont, Fr. Barthélemy, 1594-1667 | Wisconsin Historical Society
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Jesuit missionary, arrived in New France in 1629; he wrote the only contemporary account of Jean Nicolet's 1634 voyage to Wisconsin (in American Journeys, at www.americanjourneys.org)

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[Source: The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents", ed. By Reuben Gold Thwaites, v. 71; full text at http://puffin.creighton.edu/jesuit/relations/]