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  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.
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.
Frontenac died sincerely regretted by the whole colony which he had saved from ruin.
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  Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Louis de Buade de Frontenac
Louis de Buade, Comte de Frontenac et de Palluau (May_12, 1622 – November_28, 1698) was a French courtier and Governor General of New France from 1672 to 1682 and from 1689 to his death in 1698.
Louis de Buade was born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, the son of Henri de Buade, colonel in the regiment of Navarre.
Frontenac, however, was a man of dominant spirit, jealous of authority, prepared to exact obedience from all and to yield to none.
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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.
Louis de Buade was the son of Henri de Buade, colonel in the regiment of Navarre.
Frontenac, however, was a man of dominant spirit, jealous of authority, prepared to exact obedience from all and to yield to none.
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 Grassroots, Frontenac
Louis de Baude the Comte de Frontenac was born in 1622 at St. Germain,
Louis de Baude the Comte de Frontenac died in 1697 at Quebec New France.(1)
Louis de Baude de Frontenac was a born leader.
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Louis Auguste Blanqui was a brother of Jerome Blanqui and a socialist revolutionist and conspirator.
Louis I was Emperor of France in 814.
Louis II (Louis the Stammerer) was king of France in 877.
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 Cacouna.Qc - La Grande Paix de Montréal 1701
Affin d'étendre leur terrain de chasse ainsi que de re populer leur société avec des captifs de langue Iroquoise (les épidémies avaient diminues leurs rangs), ils attaquèrent les autre tribus dans le sud de l'Ontario.
D’autres tribus devinrent terrifiées de ces Iroquois, qui étaient des guerriers redoutables.
Des pictogrammes représentant trente neuf nations figurent sur le traité, avec seulement les Mohawk qui additionnèrent leur signature après la conférence.Les signatures représentaient la reconnaissance par la France de la souveraineté de chacune des nations.
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 Louis Hennepin - Catholic Encyclopedia - Catholic Online
The first experience of the young missionary was to serve during the first four years of his life in Canada as a preacher in Advent and Lent in the cloister of St. Augustine in the hospital in Quebec, in addition to performing the usual duties of the monastic life.
After remaining two years and a half at Fort Frontenac, where they built with their associates a large mission-house and laboured assiduously for the conversion of the natives, the two missionaries went down the River St. Lawrence in a canoe.
Mass was celebrated and all wished a Happy new Year to M. de la Salle, the missionaries adding words of encouragement and congratulation to their leader and at the same time exhorting all the members of the expedition to preserve confidence and fidelity.
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 QUEBEC 1670 - 1689
April 6: (I)-Louis de Buade de Fontenac et de Palluau (1622-1698), godson of Louis XIII, is appointed Governor of New France and served September 12, 1672 to September 1682 and again from October 12, 1689 to 1698.
(I)-Louis de Baud Count of Frontenac (1620-1698) wrote that (I)-Rene Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (1644-1687) and the Jesuit Fathers suggest that the English are attempting to break the treaty between the Ottawas and Canada.
Frontenac also complained to Colbert that the Jesuits stated their mission was to instruct the Indians or rather to get beavers and not to be parish priests to the French.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Count Louis de Buade Frontenac
Frontenac was sent to the rescue and was hailed as a deliverer.
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
Frontenac wisely disregarded the instructions of France to evacuate the upper country, which would have ruined the colony, and merely observed a defensive attitude.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/06310a.htm   (524 words)

  
 René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The fort, which was completed in 1673, was named for La Salle's patron, Louis de Baude Frontenac, Governor General of New France.
While he was gone, Louis Hennepin followed the Illinois River to its junction with the Mississippi, but was captured by a Sioux war party and carried off to Minnesota.
On April 9, at the mouth of the Mississippi River, near modern Venice, Louisiana, La Salle buried an engraved plate and a cross, claiming the territory for France.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ren%C3%A9-Robert_Cavelier,_Sieur_de_La_Salle   (1217 words)

  
 Arkansas Post National Memorial - The Founding of Arkansas Post (Chapter Four)
Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle was the younger son of a nobleman, a native of Rouen, France, born November 21, 1643.
He was successful on both accounts and on May 12, 1678, he received letters patent from Louis XIV to continue the explorations of Father Marquette and Joliet, find a port on the Gulf of Mexico, explore the lands southwest of the Great Lakes and find a way to get into Mexico.
De Tonti was left in command of Fort Crevecoeur.
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 Indiana Local History
Samuel de Champlain, governor of New France and the founder of Quebec, was believed to be the first of the French explorers to be connected with the Maumee region.
Louis Jolliet was one of the signers of this declaration which included the area that later became Indiana.
Louis de Baude de Frontenac, Governor of New France, decided on plans which would enable them to gain control of the area enabling the Maumee-Wabash trade route (via the portage of 1670).
home.att.net /~Local_History/IN_Timeline.htm   (2862 words)

  
 Marquette-Joliet Expedition - Encyclopedia of Arkansas
In 1673, Father Jacques Marquette, a Jesuit missionary, and Louis Joliet, a fur trader, undertook an expedition to explore the unsettled territory in North America from the Great Lakes region to the Gulf of Mexico for the colonial power of France.
By the 1670s, he was drawn into a proposition by the French governor, Louis de Baude Frontenac, to go on a voyage of discovery along the Mississippi River.
More importantly, the information gained by the explorers paved the way for the expeditions of other Frenchmen, including René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, in 1682 and Henri de Tonti, who came to Arkansas and established Arkansas Post (Arkansas County) in 1686, the first European settlement west of the Mississippi River.
encyclopediaofarkansas.net /encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=2208   (887 words)

  
 History of Canada Online - Chapter 3D. New France - Royal Colony to 1671 - Narration
Although not the first governor - that honour went to Rémy de Courcelle, the one that left the greatest legacy was Louis de Baude, the Comte de Frontenac.
Frontenac was recalled to France largely because Louis disagreed with both the Governor's extravagant lifestyle as well as what he saw as the overly rapid expansion of New France.
Frontenac replied, "I have no reply to make to your general other than from the mouths of my cannon and muskets...." In the end, however, Phips' force was defeated less by Frontenac's bravado than the weather.
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 QUEBEC 1670 - 1689
The Jesuit Bishop Father (I)- Francois Xavier de Laval Montmorency (1623-1708) again attacked the Huguenot by attempting to trap (I)-Louis de Baud Count of Frontenac (1620-1698), the Huguenot, and demanded the brandy trade be stopped.
Baron de Lahontan wrote: One is indeed surprised at the disorderliness, the feasts, the games and expense incurred by the Coureurs des Bois, both in clothing and women, as soon as they arrive.
Louis XIV (1638-1715) decreed that the first offence of being a Coureur des Boise is flogging, a second offence was branding with the Fleur de Lys, and a third offence was life in the Galleys.
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 ngb_info 1567-1698....CHAMPLAIN, FRONTENAC. NEWFOUNDLAND, NY, New Hampshire, Maine, ACADIA and BOSTON ...
De Monts, now governor of Paris, was too busy to occupy himself in the waning fortunes of the colony, and left them entirely to his associate.
Charles de Bourbon, comte de Soissons, to interest himself to obtain from the king the appointment of lieutenant-general in New France.
The comte de Soissons died almost immediately, and was succeeded in the office by Henri de Bourbon, prince de Cond, and he, like hispredecessors and successors, retained Champlain as lieutenantgovernor.
ngb.chebucto.org /MList/ngb_info/200501/2262.html   (1955 words)

  
 The War of the Grand Alliance 1688-97
Louis XIV of France took advantage of the absence of Emperor Leopold I on a campaign against the Turks and of the promised support of James II of England to invade the empire and devastate (1689) the Palatinate.
On land, however, Louis and Vauban took Namur (1692); Marshal Luxembourg was victorious at Fleurus (1690) over the Dutch and at Steenkerke (1692) and Neerwinden (1693) over William III; and the duke of Savoy was defeated at Marsaglia by Catinat (1693), while another French army entered Catalonia.
Three treaties were signed at Ryswick, September 20, 1697, securing peace between Louis XIV of France on the one side, and on the other William III of Orange (acting for Great Britain), the United Provinces of the Low Countries, and Charles II of Spain.
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 Frontenac-Foreclosures Kansas   (Site not responding. Last check: )
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Louis de Buade, Comte de Frontenac, is the kind of swashbuckling hero who leaps out of history...
BUADE DE FRONTENAC ET DE PALLUAU, LOUIS DE, soldier, Comte, governor-general of New France; one of the...
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 Biography of Cavalier de la Salle   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In 1674, he established Fort Frontenac on Lake Ontario as part of a fur trade venture.
The fort was named for La Salle's patron, Louis de Baude Frontenac, governor of New France.
With the help of Frontenac's influence, he received not only a fur trade concession with permission to establish frontier forts but also a title of nobility.
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 René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, or Robert de LaSalle (November 21, 1643 – March 19, 1687) was a French cleric and explorer.
With Frontenac's influence, he received not only a fur trade concession, with permission to establish frontier forts, but also a title of nobility.
On April 9, at the mouth of the Mississippi River, near present-day Venice, Louisiana, La Salle buried an engraved plate and a cross, claiming the territory for France.
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 McAuslan -- About McAuslan -- Products -- Griffon
But the famous Frontenac Blue Label lager beer, White Cap Ale and Export Ale were all named after Louis de Baude, Comte de Frontenac who was named Governor of New France in 1672 and died in Quebec City in 1698.
In 1689, Frontenac’s troops attacked several settlements in New England, provoking the English to counter attack and lay siege to Quebec City.
Louis Beaubien decided to use Frontenac’s name top grace his new brewery which was then the only brewery in Canada owned and controlled by "French Canadians" The rest in Quebec -- were owned by the Molson family and the Dawes family -- both obviously English.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Louis Hennepin
Frontenac, Governor-General of Canada, had built in 1673 a fort which subsequently bore his name.
Frontenac in a brigantine of about ten tons burden a detachment of his followers under the command of Pierre de St-Paul, Sieur de la Motte-Lussiére, a
Frontenac, the Governor-General of New France, concerning his wanderings and experiences.
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 People and Peoples (D-H)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Charles De Gaulle was a French soldier and statesman.
Giotto de Bondone was an Italian painter and architect.
Francisco Jose de Goya Y Lucientes was a Spanish painter.
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 Cavalier de la Salle Biography
The fort was named for La Salle's patron, Louis de Baude Frontenac, governor of New France.
With the help of Frontenac's influence, he received not only a fur trade concession with permission to establish frontier forts but also a title of nobility.
While he was gone, Louis Hennepin followed the Illinois River to its junction with the Mississippi but was captured by a war-party of Sioux and carried off to Minnesota.
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 Wyandotte County, Kansas History - Ch. I, pt. 1
Frontenac had written to his king that he would in all probability prove once for all that the great river flowed into the Gulf of California.
He, no doubt, was disappointed with his disillusionment when Father Marquette reported that his expedition floated down the Father of Waters far enough to be convinced that it must empty into the Gulf of Mexico and not into the Pacific ocean.
President Jefferson himself had but a vague conception of the purchase he had made, but he was keen to know, and for that reason encouraged and urged the fitting out of an expedition to explore the country, if possible, to the Pacific coast.
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 Settlements Fall
Meanwhile, Joseph Robineau de Villebon, who had been an officer under Meneval, established a guerrilla force at a fort far up the Saint John River and directed Frenchmen and Indians in a series of hit and run attacks against the English settlements.
When de was done, he reported that the Acadians there "were much troubled to see their Cattel (sic), Sheep, Hogs and Dogs lying dead about their houses, chop'd and hacke'd (sic) with Hatches (sic)."
The Treaty of Ryswick was signed in September 1697, ending the fighting in Europe, and restoring to French King Louis XIV the "countries, islands, forts, and colonies" that were French before the war.
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 Governors of Canada (1608-1867)
Jean de Lauzon, his successor was a French politician who had served in the Parliament of Paris and had become Intendant of the Company of New France.
He was replaced by le Chevalier de Mésy who lasted but until 1665 and had not resolved the poor organisation of the colony.
His replacement is Jacques-Rene de Brisay, Seigneur et Marquis de Denonville who made many attempts to befriend the Indians and to wage war on a branch of Iroquois.
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 City Tour: Quebec City Highlights @ nationalgeographic.com
Badly damagedin the course of the British bombardment in 1759, the Basilique de Notre-Dame-de-Québec (16 Rue Baude, +1 418 692 2533), was rebuilt over a period of nearly twocenturies by the Baillairgé dynasty of architects.
They include portraits of Louis XIV and Cardinal Richelieu.An array of early medical instruments are among the museum’s varied collections tracingthe history of the monastery.
The Chapelle des Ursulines (+1 418 694 0413.
www.nationalgeographic.com /destinations/Quebec_City/Quebec_City_Highlights.html   (1496 words)

  
 Iroqouis-OldWarHorse
When Count Louis de Baude Frontenac was appointed Governor of New France in 1672, at the age of 50, he was a Marshal of the King’s Camps and Armies, having served in several European campaigns.
His successors failed so miserably that, the now 67-year old, Frontenac was recalled to New France in 1689 with orders to contain the English and punish the Iroquois.
Bochart de Champigny was with the French army.
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 Miskatonic University Department of Literature
Fighting and brave deeds, court luxury and prison squalor, hope and despair-all have their place in the story as it is told in the peron of Michelle de Maniscamp, a young and spirited French Huguenot girl of the noble house of Aulone.
It is a gay throng that frequents the spendid court of Versailles, where one glimpses Madame de Maintenon, Louis "the Sun King" himself, dashing courtiers and ladies famed for their wit and beauty.
The action moves to the English court at Whitehall, where the scepter is already slipping from the feeble hold of the ineffectual King James, and then shifts to the New World, where at Quebec are enacted some of the most stirring scenes in a story crammed with movement and life.
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