Unnamed Three Frenchmen
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Character Key:
Display Name:
Unnamed Three Frenchmen
Sort Name:
Unnamed Three Frenchmen
AKA:
Robert de la Salle
Race:
White
Gender:
Male
Class:
MultiClass Group
Rank:
Minor
Vitality:
Alive
Occupation:
Other
Specific Job:
Explorers
First Mentioned:
Origin:
France
Biography:
One of the "three Frenchmen" who travels down the Mississippi River in "a Chippeway canoe" is almost certainly René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, the 17th-century French explorer credited with discovering the river and claiming it and all the territory it drained for France (81). But it's not clear why Faulkner associates him specifically with two other Frenchmen. The actual party of Frenchmen and French-Canadians who, along with a group of Canadian Indians, traveled downriver to the Gulf of Mexico in 1682-1683 was much larger.
Ontological Status:
Historical/Real
Individual or Group:
Group
Character changes class in this text:
Date of Death:
Monday, January 7, 2019
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