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Louis was born on September 17, 1676 in Canada at Beauport, Quebec, of which his father Nicolas was seigneur; his mother was Marie-Therese Giffard.
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Louis was born on September 17, 1676 in Canada at Beauport, Quebec, of which his father Nicolas was seigneur; his mother was Marie-Therese Giffard.
After a Canadian boyhood he joined at the age of twenty-two the expedition of Pierre le Moyne, Sieur d'Iberville, when he founded Louisiana, and in 1700 accompanied Jean Baptiste le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville, on a trip of exploration to the Red River of Louisiana. Somewhat later (1702 - 05) he was in charge of a post on the lower Mississippi, while the capital of the colony was at Biloxi. He engaged in several expeditions into the Indian country and in 1710 again mounted Red River to the country of the Natchitoches Indians, where he traded with these and neighboring tribes in what is now Texas. In 1711 a Spanish missionary in that region wrote to the French officer at Mobile offering opportunities to trade with the Texas Indians.
In 1713 Cadillac, then governor, sent St. Denis to open a route across Texas and begin the Indian trade. Once more ascending Red River to the Natchitoches, he founded a post there and crossed to the Rio Grande but was detained by the Spaniards at the presidio of San Juan Bautista until orders could come from Mexico.
During his detention he wooed the commandant's granddaughter, Manuela Sanchez Ramen, and February 17, 1716, they were married - a romantic incident unduly magnified by Gayarre (post) and older historians of Louisiana. Meanwhile he had been sent to Mexico, where he was kept in prison until he persuaded the authorities to allow him to accompany as guide a Spanish expedition which in 1716 was sent to found missions in the region north of Mexico. Because of this service he has been accused of bad faith or double dealing; apparently at that time he attempted to be all things to all men, Spanish as well as French.
Returning to Mobile and reporting his success to Cadillac, he was furnished with new goods and in 1717 went back via Natchitoches to San Juan, where his goods were seized. Going to Mexico City to protest, he was a second time imprisoned but finally escaped on September 5, 1718, arriving at Natchitoches early the next year. His escapades and smuggling enterprises created an international incident when the king of France asked his agent at Madrid to find out secretly what Spain meant to do with this adventurer; but as the two nations were at peace no further attempt was made to restrain his trading incursions.
He arrived at Natchitoches from Mobile in 1719; there his wife joined him, and there he spent the remainder of his life, a thorn in the side of the Spanish in Mexico.
St. Denis died at Natchitoches on 11 June 1744.
Louis Juchereau de St. Denis is noted for founding Fort St Jean Baptiste de Natchitoches in northern La Louisiane, as it was called "the French colony". He had great influence with the Indians of Texas and Louisiana, for he spoke their languages and they trusted him; and he maintained for a quarter of a century an outpost for France on the Spanish border which was useful in commercial and diplomatic affairs.
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Quotations: “Happy is the person who can leave (Louisiana), and happier is he who never came here, ” he wrote in April 1741.
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When the news of his death reached Mexico City the governor of that time exclaimed in effect, "St. Denis is dead, thank God! Now we can breathe easier. "
He had a wife and five children, one of whom was married briefly to Athanase de Mézières.
