writes that Nicolet immediately returned to Huronia after the peace conference was finished, and Nicolet could have gathered knowledge of the Illinois from the natives he met at Green Bay rather than by traveling there himself. Nicolet certainly had returned to Trois-Rivières by December 1635, according to Le Jeune, but may have arrived earlier than that.

Death

On October 29, 1642, Nicolet drowned after his boat capsized just off of Quebec City in Saint Lawrence River.

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