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Maturin Le Petit (1693–1739) was a Jesuit priest sent among the Choctaws in 1726 and to observe the Natchez in 1730 in an area of what became part of Mississippi. He was also in New Orleans. He wrote of the Natchez that, "The sun is the principal object of veneration to these people" and that "they cannot conceive of anything which can be above this heavenly body." The French were fascinated by accounts of the Natchez as they had been ruled by their own Sun King, Louis XIV (le Roi Soleil).

References

1. Margaret Mead, Ruth Leah Bunzel 1960 - 630 pages
2. Hamilton, Peter Joseph (1897). "Colonial Mobile: An Historical Study, Largely from Original Sources, of the Alabama-Tombigbee Basin from the Discovery of Mobile Bay in 1519 Until the Demolition of Fort Charlotte in 1821".
3. Robert Wright - 2009 - 567 pages
4. Hamilton, Peter Joseph (1897). "Colonial Mobile: An Historical Study, Largely from Original Sources, of the Alabama-Tombigbee Basin from the Discovery of Mobile Bay in 1519 Until the Demolition of Fort Charlotte in 1821".
5. Peter Farb 1971 - 332 pages
6. Man's rise to civilization: the cultural ascent of the Indians of North America Peter Farb Dutton, Mar 9, 1978 314 pages

• 1693 births
• 1739 deaths
• Jesuit history in North America
• 18th-century French Jesuits
• Native American history of Mississippi
• French Roman Catholic missionaries
• Jesuit missionaries in New France