CONTENTS
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| I. | [CANADA IN 1672] | 1 |
| II. | [LOUIS DE BUADE, COMTE DE FRONTENAC] | 17 |
| III. | [FRONTENAC'S FIRST YEARS IN CANADA] | 33 |
| IV. | [GOVERNOR, BISHOP, AND INTENDANT] | 51 |
| V. | [FRONTENAC'S PUBLIC POLICY] | 71 |
| VI. | [THE LURID INTERVAL] | 87 |
| VII. | [THE GREAT STRUGGLE] | 113 |
| VIII. | [FRONTENAC'S LAST DAYS] | 135 |
| [BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE] | 162 | |
| [INDEX] | 164 |
ILLUSTRATIONS
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[FRONTENAC ANSWERING PHIPS'S MESSENGER, 1690] From a colour drawing by C. W. Jefferys. | Frontispiece |
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[LADY FRONTENAC] From a painting in the Versailles Gallery. | Facing page 22 |
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[JEAN BAPTISTE COLBERT] From an engraving in the Château de Ramezay. | " 26 |
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[ROBERT CAVELIER DE LA SALLE] From an engraving by Waltner, Paris. | " 40 |
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[FIGURE OF FRONTENAC] From the Hébert Statue at Quebec. | " 80 |
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[PIERRE LE MOYNE, SIEUR D'IBERVILLE] From an engraving in the John Ross Robertson Collection, Toronto Public Library. | " 118 |
CHAPTER I
CANADA IN 1672
The Canada to which Frontenac came in 1672 was no longer the infant colony it had been when Richelieu founded the Company of One Hundred Associates. Through the efforts of Louis XIV and Colbert it had assumed the form of an organized province.[[1]] Though its inhabitants numbered less than seven thousand, the institutions under which they lived could not have been more elaborate or precise. In short, the divine right of the king to rule over his people was proclaimed as loudly in the colony as in the motherland.