Pierre-Charles Le Sueur was a French fur trader and explorer in North America. Le Sueur came to Canada with the Jesuits to their mission at Sault Ste Marie, but very soon he turned himself to fur trade and became a coureur des bois. Around 1683, he received some samples of bluish clay from the middle reaches of a tributary of the Mississippi and took it back to France to be analyzed. A chemist, L'Huillier, deemed it to be copper ore. Wikipedia
LE SUEUR , PIERRE , donn of the Jesuits, explorer, trader, coureur de bois; b. c . 1657 in Artois, France, son of Victor LeSueur and Anne Honneur; d.17July1704 at Havana, Cuba. www.biographi.ca/EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=35071
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