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Sentence Examples
The first European likely to have seen Mackinac Island is Jean Nicolet, a French-Canadian coureur de bois, during his 1634 explorations.
After travelling several kilometers, we stop for lunch in a genuine coureur de bois cabin.
The coureur de bois was a nomad who traveled throughout this area, bringing news, stories and a vast knowledge of the land and its people.
When Quebec City was established in 1608, the coureur de bois was the messenger throughout la Nouvelle France, which included the Maritime Provinces of Canada, Quebec and Maine.
Examples from Classical Literature
Jacques Morand, the coureur de bois, was in love with Genevieve Parent, but she disliked him and wished only to serve the church.
La Salle was a coureur de bois, most of this time, for he operated in a field far larger than that for which he had a license.
The coureur de bois, who had reached the settlement later than his companion, grunted.
Sieur Joliet took Anthony and the little slave and one coureur de bois and kept on down toward Quebec to report.
It was a coureur de bois, not hurt in body, but so frightened that his state was pitiful.
There are recipes for fried bannock, salmon chowder, sunshine soup, coureur de bois casserole, apple sauce and frogs' legs.
