LA HONTAN, la oietan, Armand Louis, &vox DE, French soldier and traveler: b. Mont-de-Marsan, about 1666; d. Hanover, 1715. He went to Canada (1683) and served as a common soldier till he was advanced in the ranks, and as commander of several inland forts explored the great lakes. In 1691 he returned to France to attempt to regain his patri mony. He returned to Canada (1693) and was made king's lieutenant in Newfoundland and promptly picked a quarrel with the gover nor, fleeing on a merchant vessel to escape arrest, and landed (1694) in Portugal to arrive in Paris in time to receive his dismissal from office. Leaving Paris he went to his native province in Gascony, but hearing he was about to be arrested, he fled to Spain, then retired to Hanover and died there. He published an ac count of his adventures in America, together with his description of "(the different inhabit ants, the• nature of their government, their commerce, costumes and under the title voyages dans l'Amerique septentrionale> (The Hague 1703, 1709; Am sterdam 1705, 1742) with maps and drawings. A third volume appeared (Amsterdam 1704) under title of (Suite du voyage de l'Amerique,) both the works being published together later (Amsterdam 1728). He relates the points in
his campaign at Michillimakinac, which he left to reach the Mississippi via Wisconsin, using Carver's route. He describes a trip along a river which he names the Riviere Long and gives considerable details, but some writers de clare this part to be fiction.
LA JONQUIkRE, la zhonlyar', Jacques Pierre Taffanel, MARQUIS DE, French naval officer: b. Lagraisses, near Alby, 1680; d. Que bec, Canada, 1753. He accompanied Duguay Frouin at the taking of Rio Janeiro (1711) was captain under Admiral de Court (1744; at the battle of Toulon and commanded the French fleet at the battle of Finisterre (1747), with his six vessels fighting against 17 British men of the line. Taken prisoner, he gained his liberty on the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle when (1749) he went to Quebec as governor of Canada to which he had been appointed in 1746, but his two former attempts to cross the ocean had been frustrated. He proved an able gov ernor.