the State Historical Society of Missouri
Pierre Gabriel Marest, a Jesuit priest in the Illinois Country, was among a group of French…
the State Historical Society of Missouri
![A late nineteenth-century illustration of French missionaries traveling by canoe with Native Americans. [Harper’s Monthly, April 1892]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2022-04/1.%20Pierre%20Gabriel%20Marest.jpg?itok=q4f9bWfo "A late nineteenth-century illustration of French missionaries traveling by canoe with Native Americans. [Harper’s Monthly, April 1892]")