Editing Louis Jolliet (section)

==Early life==
Jolliet was born in 1645 in [[Beaupré, Quebec|Beaupré]], a [[New France|French]] settlement near [[Quebec City]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Louis-Jolliet|title = Louis Jolliet &#124; French-Canadian explorer| date=18 March 2024 }}</ref> to Jean Jolliet and Marie D'Abancourt. When he was six years old, his father died; his mother married a successful merchant, Geoffroy Guillot dit Lavalle, until he died in 1665. Shortly after the passing of his mother's second husband, she was married to Martin Prevost until she died in 1678.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Vachon|first=André|date=2003|title="JOLLIET, LOUIS," in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 1|url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/jolliet_louis_1E.html|access-date=November 19, 2020|website=Dictionary of Canadian Biography}}</ref> Jolliet's stepfather owned land on the [[Ile d'Orleans]], an island in the [[Saint Lawrence River]] in Quebec that was home to [[First Nations in Canada|First Nations]]. Jolliet spent much time on Ile d'Orleans, so he likely began speaking [[Indigenous languages of the Americas]] at a young age. Besides [[French language|French]], he also learned English and Spanish. During his childhood, Quebec was the center of the French [[fur trade]]. The Natives were part of daily life in Quebec, and Jolliet grew up knowing much about them. Jolliet entered a Jesuit school in Quebec as a child and focused on philosophical and religious studies, aiming for the priesthood. He also studied music, becoming a skilled [[harpsichord]]ist and church organist. He received [[Holy Orders]] in 1662 but abandoned his plans to become a priest, leaving the seminary in 1667 to pursue fur trading instead.<ref>Wilson, James Grant & Fiske, John (Eds.). ''Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography''. New York: D. Appleton and Company (1887), Vol. III, p. 461.</ref>