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Jean de Quen, French missionary, priest, and historian (born 1603)

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Jean de Quen

French Jesuit missionary

Jean de Quen was a French Jesuit missionary, priest and historian. As head of Jesuit missions of New France, he founded the mission to Saguenay. In 1647, Jean de Quen was the first European to reach the shores of Piékouagami.
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