The correct answers are A) Marquette and B) Cartier.
The navigators who explored for France were Marquette and Cartier.
Due to many internal issues and conflicts with other nations, France was not the first to sent its navy to explore other regions. However, when they captured Spanish ships that transported raw materials and precious metals such as gold, they wanted a piece of the "lucrative pie." So, the King of France orderer exploration to discover the Norwest passage to India and from this moment, many explorers navigated the seas such as Jaques de Cartier that arrived at St. Lawrence River in 1534, Giovani de Verrazzano, an Italian that was hired by the French. Years later, Jaques Marquette explored the Mississippi basin.
