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La Rochelle, Peace of. A peace signed at La Rochelle, July 6, 1573, whereby Charles IX. granted the Protestants partial toleration. La-Roche-sur-Yon (lä-rosh'sür-yôn′). The made good its escape, however, and afterward rejoined La Salle at Mackinaw. Organizing a new expedition, he set out from Fort Frontenac with Henry de Tonti, thirty French men, and a band of Indians in 1681, and, reaching the Mi i ippi by way of the Chicago portage and the Illinois River, descended to its mouth, which he reached April 9, 1682. In 1684 he led a band of colonists from France, intending to found a settlement at the mouth of the Mi i ippi. He landed at Matagorda Bay, Texas, which he místook for a western outlet of the river, and was on his way to Canada to procure provisions for his colony when he was a a inated by some of his disaffected followers near a branch of the Trinity River, Texas. Lasca, Il. See Grazzini . The Century Cyclopedia of Names