page_title: Louis Hennepin
section_title: Books by Hennepin
hierarchical_section_title: Louis Hennepin / Books by Hennepin
caption_attribution_description: English: Illustration of dress, in the Dutch edition of Louis Hennepin, Description de la Louisiane Français&#160;: Illustration de l'habillement, dans l'édition hollandaise de Description de la Louisiane de Louis Hennepin
context_page_description: Father Louis Hennepin, O.F.M. baptized Antoine, was a Belgian Roman Catholic priest and missionary of the Franciscan Recollet order and an explorer of the interior of North America.
context_section_description: Hennepin authored:
  Description de la Louisiane (Paris, 1683),
  Nouvelle découverte d'un très grand pays situé dans l'Amérique entre le Nouveau-Mexique et la mer glaciale (Utrecht, 1697), and
  Nouveau voyage d'un pays plus grand que l'Europe (Utrecht, 1698).
  A New Discovery of a Vast Country in America (2 volumes); reprinted from the second London issue of 1698 with facsimiles of original title-pages, maps, and illustrations, and the addition of Introduction, Notes, and Index By Reuben Gold Thwaites. A.C. McClurg & Co., Chicago, 1903.
  
  The truth of much of Hennepin's accounts has been called into question — or flatly denied — notably by American historian Francis Parkman, himself also cited for cultural bias, including against both French and Native Americans. 
  Hennepin has been denounced by many historians and historical critics as an arrant falsifier. Certain writers have sought to repel this charge by claiming that the erroneous statements are in fact interpolations by other persons. The weight of the evidence is however adverse to such a theory.
  — Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913
caption: Illustration from the 1688 Dutch edition of Description de la Louisiane
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