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LA SALLE
C.
LETTERS PATENT GRANTED BY THE KING OF
FRANCE TO THE SIEUR DE LA SALLE, ON
THE I2TH MAY, i678.1
(Translation.)
LoUIS, by the grace of God King of
France and of Navarre. To Our dear and
well-beloved Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la
Salle, greeting.
We have received with favor the very
humble petition, which has been presented
to us in your name, to permit you to endeavor
to discover the western part of New
France; and We have consented to this proposal
the more willingly, because there is
nothing We have more at heart than the discovery
of this country, through which it is
probable a road may be found to penetrate
to Mexico (dans laquel il y a apparence que
l'on trouvera un chemin pour penetrer
jusqu'au Mexique); and because your diligence
in clearing lands which We granted
to you by the decree of Our Council of the
I3th of May, I675, and, by Letters Patent
of the same date, to form habitations upon
the said lands, and to put Fort Frontenac in
a good state of defense, the seigniory and
Reprinted from FRENCH, Hist'l Coll'ns La.,
Part I., 35, 36. Cf. MARGRY I., 337, 338. This
document occurs in so many different places that
it seems useless, in view of its limited importance,
to multiply references.
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Cox, Isaac Joslin. The Journeys of Rene Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, Volume 2, book, 1922; New York. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth6103/m1/248/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .