La Barre, Le Febvre de, Governor of New France, 92-94, 109 La Durantaye, Olivier Morel de, 95, 164 La Forêt, François Dauphine de, 87, 95, 163 Lalemant, Jesuit missionary, 56 La Mothe-Cadillac, Antoine de 87, 163 La Roche, Sieur de, 32 La Salle, René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de, foremost among French pathfinders, 87; born (1643), 100; comes to Montreal (1666), 100-01; equips expedition (1669), 102; receives trading rights and land at Fort Frontenac, 103; goes to France for further aid, 103-04; first journey down the Illinois, 105-107; returns to Montreal, 107; reaches the Mississippi, 107; winters at Fort Miami, 108; journeys down the Mississippi, 108-09; plans for founding colony in lower Mississippi valley (1684), 109-10; death (1687), 110; later estimates of, 111-12 Lauzon, Jean de, Governor of New France, 57 Laval, François-Xavier de, Abbé de Montigny, Bishop of Quebec, arrives in New France (1659), 58; friction with civil authorities, 58-69; relations with Mézy, 72-73; returns to colony, 88; opposed to Frontenac, 89 _et seq_.; born (1622), 124; personal characteristics, 125-26; opposed to liquor traffic. 126-27 Law, John, 67 Le Caron, Joseph, Récollet, missionary, 46 Le Moyne, Jesuit missionary, 57 Lescarbot, Marc, 38 Liquor traffic with the Indians, 126-27, 173-78 Longueuil, Baron de, 142 Louis XIV, centralization of power under, 4-5; interest in colonial ventures, 9; assumes power (1658), 60; edict of 1663, 62-63; personal interest in New France, 70-71 Maisonneuve, Paul de Chomedey, Sieur de, 54-55 Mance, Jeanne, 55 Marquette, Jacques, Jesuit missionary, 103 Matagorda Bay, 110 Mazarin, Jules, not interested in colonial ventures, 8 Meules, Intendant of New France, 93 Mézy, de, Governor of New France, 72-74 Miami, Fort, 108 Michilimackinac, 105, 108 Mingan Islands, 20 Mississippi River, La Salle reaches, 108 Montmagny, Charles Jacques Huault. Sieur de, 54, 55 Montreal, settled, 54-55; annual fur fair at, 166-71; _see also_ Hochelaga Monts, Pierre du Guast, Sieur de, granted trade monopoly, 35; organizes company, 35-39; loses influence at court, 48