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What country was Jacques Cartier born and what was an accomplishment.

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Jacques Cartier, (born 1491, Saint-Malo, Brittany, France), French mariner, whose explorations of the Canadian coast and the St. Lawrence River (1534, 1535, 1541–42) laid the basis for later French claims to North America.