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  Louis de Buade de Frontenac - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Louis de Buade, Comte de Frontenac et de Palluau (May 22, 1622 – November 28, 1698) was a French courtier and Governor of New France from 1672 to 1682 and from 1689 to his death in 1698.
Under Frontenac's leadership, the Canadian militia became increasingly adept at guerrila warfare and took the war into Iroquois territory and attacked a number of English settlements.
In 1696, at the age of 74, Frontenac led an invasion of the Iroquois country.
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 FRONTENAC ET PALLUAU, LOUIS DE BUADE, COMTE DE (1620--1698) - Online Information article about FRONTENAC ET PALLUAU, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The de Buades, however, were a family of distinction in the principality of Beam.
Frontenac, however, was a man of dominant spirit, jealous of authority, prepared to exact obedience from all and to yield to none.
Frontenac, bold and fearless, sent a defiant answer to the hostile admiral, and handled so vigorously the forces he had collected as completely to repulse the enemy, who in their hasty retreat left behind a few pieces of artillery on the Beauport shore.
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 Frontenac, Louis de Buade, Comte de
Frontenac, Louis de Buade, Comte de, governor general of New France (b at St-Germain, France 22 May 1622; d at Québec City 28 Nov 1698).
Frontenac used his authority to send out exploratory parties and to establish forts - trading posts really - to benefit his confederates in the fur trade.
Frontenac was reinstated as governor in 1689, when nations of the Iroquois Confederacy were attacking New France.
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Frontenac, Louis de Buade, Comte de Palluau et de
(1620-1698), governor of New France (1672-82 and 1689-98), was born in 1620, the son of Henri de Buade, colonel of the regiment of Navarre.
In 1648 he married Anne de la Grange Trianon, daughter of the Sieur de Neuville; and by her he had one son, who died apparently in youth.
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 Frontenac, Louis de Buade, comte de Palluau et de. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
His policy was not acceptable to Louis XIV and to his minister Jean Colbert, and, adding to the power of the council in New France, they reduced that of the governor.
Frontenac was embroiled in quarrels with the Jesuits, with the intendant, and with the governor of Montreal, but he tried to develop new policies toward the indigenous peoples, forwarded explorations by Louis Jolliet, Jacques Marquette, and the sieur de La Salle, and aided in the establishment of forts and posts in the new French territory.
When disagreements among the heads of the colony caused division and confusion, Frontenac was recalled (1682) to France.
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 Frontenac
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 Historical Biographies, Nova Scotia: Comte de Frontenac (1620-98).
We write of Frontenac, not because he played a direct role in the history of Acadia; but because he was such a giant figure in early North American history and had such an impact of the course of events.
As for his character: Frontenac was given to extravagance; and he had "expensive tastes" and a "colossal vanity." He was fond of praising everything that he owed and was constantly telling those he met of the excellence of his staff, from his kitchen on up.
Frontenac's career at Quebec, interesting, turbulent and noteworthy as it was, cannot form part of my story.
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Frontenac, Louis de Buade, Comte de Palluau et de (1620-1698), French soldier and colonial governor of New France (now Canada) from 1672 to 1682,...
La Salle was born on November 22, 1643, in Rouen, and educated by the Jesuits.
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 Frontenac, Louis de Buade, comte de
Frontenac se sert de son autorité pour organiser des expéditions de reconnaissance et pour construire des forts, qui sont en réalité des postes de traite des fourrures pour ses complices traiteurs.
Frontenac est rétabli dans ses fonctions de gouverneur en 1689, au moment où les nations de la confédération iroquoise attaquent la Nouvelle-France.
Frontenac croit, à tort, pouvoir mettre fin à l'hostilité des Iroquois par la diplomatie.
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 Louis de Buade, Compte de Frontenac   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Louis de Buade de Frontenac was born in Paris in 1662.
Frontenac entered the military where he eventually rose to the rank of Marshall of the King's Camps.
Frontenac was a superb military man and accomplished much during his assignment as Governor-General, but he was also very proud and domineering.
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 Frontenac, Louis de Buade, comte de Palluau et de --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Frontenac's father, Henri de Buade, was colonel of the Régiment de Navarre and a member of Louis XIII's entourage.
The young Frontenac served with the French armies during the Thirty Years' War; by 1643, at the age of 21, he was colonel of the Régiment de Normandie, and in 1646 he was appointed a maréchal de camp (brigadier general).
Frontenac had great personal charm and much influence at court, but he was also egoistic and unscrupulous, as well as extravagant; by 1663 his debts amounted to more than 350,000 livres.
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 Frontenac, Louis de Buade, comte de Palluau et de --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Frontenac's father, Henri de Buade, was colonel of the Régiment de Navarre…
As governor general of New France for two terms, from 1672 to 1682 and 1689 to 1698, Louis de Frontenac pushed the extension of that North American French colony west to present-day Manitoba and south to the Gulf of Mexico.
Beautiful and witty, Madame de Sévigné has been called the “queen of letter writers.” She was born in Paris on Feb. 5, 1626, and was christened Marie.
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 Croix de Saint Louis
The Ordre royal et militaire de Saint Louis, founded 1693, was the only military order awarded in NEW FRANCE.
In Canada Louis-Hector de CALLIERE (1694) was the first to receive the decoration; Louis de Buade de FRONTENAC received it in 1697.
The Croix de Saint Louis rapidly lost its value in France because it was too easily obtained, but in Canada it was rare and therefore retained its value.
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 Search Results for "Frontenac"
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He became a favorite of Frontenac, the governor of New France, and in 1694 he was placed in charge...
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Count Louis de Baude Frontenac
In 1689, when the uprising of the Iroquois and the Lachine massacre, in retaliation of Governor Denonville's treacherous dealing, threatened the existence of the colony, Frontenac was sent to the rescue and was hailed as a deliverer.
When, to avenge these disasters, Boston sent a fleet against Quebec (1690), Frontenac's response to the summons of Phipps's envoy was: "Go tell your master that we shall answer him by the mouths of our guns" — a threat which was made good by the enemy's defeat.
In 1696 Frontenac wisely disregarded the instructions of France to evacuate the upper country, which would have ruined the colony, and merely observed a defensive attitude.
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 Projet Phips - Phips et Frontenac : biographies
De 1689 à 1692, la Nouvelle-France et la Nouvelle-Angleterre subissent le contrecoup de la guerre qui oppose les mères-patries en Europe.
Louis de Buade, comte de Frontenac, est né le 12 mai 1620, à Saint-Germain-en-Laye.
Il a été gouverneur général, c'est-à-dire représentant de Louis XIV en Nouvelle-France, de 1672 à 1682 et de 1689 à 1698.
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 cars - Frontenac (Montreal Metro)
Frontenac is a station on the Montreal Metro on the Green Line, located in the borough of Ville-Marie.
Frontenac station takes its name from nearby Rue Frontenac, which in turn is named for Louis de Buade, sieur de Frontenac et de Palluau.
The godson of King Louis XIII of France, he was governor-general of New France between 1672 and his death in 1698.
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 Fort Frontenac - Indopedia, the Indological knowledgebase   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Fort Frontenac was the historic nucleus of the modern city of Kingston, Ontario.
Located near the head of the Saint Lawrence River, it was the major Canadian colonial fort at the eastern end of Lake Ontario.
It was named for Louis de Buade de Frontenac, Governor of New France.
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 Frontenac - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Louis de Buade de Frontenac, Governor of New France
Fort Frontenac, where the city of Kingston, Ontario lies today.
This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share the same title.
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Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV.
Subjects: Frontenac, Louis de Buade, -- comte de, -- 1620-1698.
Frontenac, Louis de Buade, -- comte de Palluau et de, -- 1620-1698.
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 Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Of Henri de Buade, father of the governor of Canada, but little is recorded.
Apparently his birth took place elsewhere than in Paris, for it is not recorded with those of Henri de Buade's other children, on the register of St. Paul (Jal, _Dictionnaire Critique, Biographique, et d'Histoire_).
de Buade et demoiselle de La Grange de célébrer leur marriage suyvant et conformément à la permission qu'ils en ont obtenue du Sr.
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 Château Frontenac -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The Château Frontenac is one of the main attractions of (Click link for more info and facts about Québec City, Quebec) Québec City, Quebec.
Château Frontenac is a "cousin" to (Click link for more info and facts about Chateau Lake Louise) Chateau Lake Louise on the shores of (Click link for more info and facts about Lake Louise) Lake Louise in (One of the three prairie provinces in western Canada; rich in oil and natural gas and minerals) Alberta.
The Château Frontenac was named in honor of (Click link for more info and facts about Louis Buade, Count of Frontenac) Louis Buade, Count of Frontenac, who was governor of the colony of (Click link for more info and facts about New France) New France from 1672 to 1682 and 1689 to 1698.
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 The Virtual Museum of New-France: Cavelier de La Salle
René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle was born at Rouen, in Normandy, on the twenty-first of November, 1643.
De Casson also brought along an invaluable companion, the Abbé René de Bréhan de Galinée, whose task was to draw maps of their discoveries.
Nonetheless, Louis XIV was misled by false maps which placed the Mississippi near the Rio Grande and New Spain.
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 AllRefer.com - Frontenac, Louis de Buade, comte de Palluau et de (Canadian History, Biography) - Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Frontenac, Louis de Buade, comte de Palluau et de, Canadian History, Biographies
Frontenac, Louis de Buade, comte de Palluau et de[fron´tinak, Fr.
lwE du bUAd´ koNt du pAlUO´ A du frONtunAk´] Pronunciation Key, 1620–98, French governor of New France.
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 The Peloquin Family History
Robert de La Salle deserves thanks for his role in the French/English contest for the American empire which then extended from the North Atlantic coast to the Gulf of Mexico.
On 10 October 1690, Frontenac then in Montreal, was informed of a large flotilla in route for an attack of Quebec.
It records that Francois Pelloquin born in the Parish of Saint-André de Niort in Poitou, the son of Mathurin Pelloquin who lived on Niort and the deceased Ambroise Syllard.
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 Bolduc Genealogy
Where Louis is referred to in a negative sense, as a thief, embezzler, etc.; one student of French has claimed that the inflections, spelling, and use of expressions seem to indicate that his corruption went far deeper, to the point of being considered "evil".
Louis was accused of embezzlements of all kinds and of accepting bribes in the exercise of his post.
Quarrels with the Jesuits, the new intendant and the governor of Montreal divided the colony, and the news spreading to France, Frontenac was recalled in 1682.
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 Hotel Chateau Frontenac
A château (French for castle ; plural châteaux) is a manor house or residence of the lord ofthe manor or a country house of gentry, usually French, with or without fortifications.
The next step down in France is a maison de campagne, a "country house" with the usual English connotations of theword.
There is a distinction in French between a maison de campagne and one that is merely a maison à la campagne,a "house in the country," perhaps a weekending retreat.
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 explorateurs Quebec
Au bout de dix mois, sa tentative coloniale s'avère un désastre.
Frontenac fait la guerre en territoire iroquois, afin de libérer le Québec de ses envahisseurs, à la solde des anglais.
Il revendiqua en français les droits de la langue française, la langue de sa mère, disait il, et celle aussi de tous ses frères canadiens français.
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