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"Simple et vrai recit de la conduite du revd P. de La Valiniere depuis son arrivee aux Illiniois le 20 juin 1786," a satirical sketch, in French and English, of Fr. Huet de la Valiniere (1732-1806). This is a photostatic copy, acquired by the Illinois Historical Survey in 1931, of the original in the Parkman papers of the Massachusetts Historical Society. See the entry for Huet in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography.