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    Jean Nicolet (Nicollet), Sieur de Belleborne (c. 1598 – October 1642) was a French coureur des bois noted for exploring Lake Michigan, Mackinac Island...
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  • on Jean Nicolet. I-8 then began searching for Jean Nicolet′s survivors with a searchlight while a member of her crew called out for Jean Nicolet′s captain...
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    Nicolet. The residents of the town pronounce the final "t" in Nicolet, however people outside of the region do not. The town took its name from Jean Nicolet...
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    European to visit what became Wisconsin was probably the French explorer Jean Nicolet. He canoed west from Georgian Bay through the Great Lakes in 1634, and...
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    Nicolet High School is a public secondary school located in Glendale, Wisconsin. It is the only school in the Nicolet Unified School District, which serves...
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    district) Aurèle Nicolet (1926–2016), Swiss flautist Hercule Nicolet (1801–1872), Swiss lithographer and entomologist Jean Nicolet (1598–1642), French...
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    Champlain founded Quebec (1608) and explored the Great Lakes. In 1634, Jean Nicolet founded La Baye des Puants (present-day Green Bay), which is one of the...
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    Packers. Samuel de Champlain, the founder of New France, commissioned Jean Nicolet to form a peaceful alliance with Native Americans in the western areas...
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    European to visit what became Wisconsin was probably the French explorer Jean Nicolet. He canoed west from Georgian Bay through the Great Lakes in 1634, and...
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    the Green Bay Metropolitan Statistical Area. When the first European, Jean Nicolet, visited the place in 1634–35, De Pere was the site of a polyglot settlement...
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