La Salle

(lə sal′; Fr lȧ sȧl′)

La Salle, Sieur Robert Cavelier de 1643-87; Fr. explorer in North America

See La Salle in American Heritage Dictionary 4

A city of southern Quebec, Canada, on Montreal Island and the St. Lawrence River. It is a residential suburb of Montreal. Population: 73,983.

French explorer in North America who claimed Louisiana for France (1682).

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