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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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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,...
Lagrange, Joseph Louis, Comte de (1736-1813), French mathematician and astronomer, born in Turin, in Italy, and educated at the University of Turin....
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Frontenac, Louis de Buade, comte de Palluau et de[fron´tinak, Fr.
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.
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 Louis de Buade, Comte de Frontenac
(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.
He was appointed governor of New France in 1672; and, except for an interval of seven years, from 1682 to 1689, he continued to administer the government of the colony until his death at Quebec on November 28, 1698.
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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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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Louis de Buade, Comte de Frontenac et de Palluau (May_22, 1622 - November_28, 1698) was a FranceFrench courtier and Governor of New France from 1672 to 1682 and from 1689 to his death in 1698.
Frontenac was notorious for giving whisky to the Iroqouis tribes in exchange for animal pelts.
So in 1696, at the age of 74, Frontenac led an invasion of the Iroquois country.
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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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 Governor Frontenac
Louis de Buade, Comte de Frontenac, is the kind of swashbuckling hero who leaps out of history.
Buffeted by the crowds in the streets, and confused by the noise of the surrounding activity, Savage was persuaded that the town was strongly fortified, with the colony's entire military force mobilized and assembled for the battle.
So effective was Frontenac's psychological ploy, and so solid the stand of his small but valiant defence force, that after three days the British beat a hasty retreat, leaving five of their six artillery pieces in the field.
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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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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 (1620-1698): We were there: Gen-Books Heritage
Frontenac was Governor for New France and not everyone agreed to endorse his views; Mathieu Damours, a nobleman educated in France, was a quiet low-key respectable person who fully endorsed the welfare of the King or New France and was not always in agreement with Frontenac.
Mathieu was married to Marie, the eldest daughter of Nicolas Marsolet de St-Aignan, sieur de Bellechasse..
Louis de Buade, Count of Frontenac, had Mathieu Damours (Father) secretly arrested and put in prison, to keep him from divulging some of his own activities.
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Louis de Buade, Count of Frontenac, was born on May 12, 1620 at Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France.
He served as Governor General and representative of Louis XIV in New France from 1672 to 1682 and from 1689 to 1698.
In Canada, Frontenac is considered the architect of French expansion in North America and the defender of New France against attacks by the Iroquois Confederacy and the British colonies.
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Louis de Buade de Frontenac, Govenor-Geneneral of New France
Frontenac 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.
Île Jésus is an island in southwestern Quebec, separated from the mainland to the north by the Rivière des Mille-Îles, and from the Island of Montreal to the south by the Rivière des Prairies.
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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'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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The chief activity of the French was the fur trade conducted by the coureurs de bois or the "runners of the woods." The Governor of New France, Louis de Buade Frontenac (1620-1698), showed a preference for fur trading activities over the establishment of farming communities.
The migration of Louis Lavergne and Marie Anne LaCase and their family from the Paskagoula to the Opelousas area was probably prompted by the events of the area between the time of the Seven Years War (French and Indian War) from 1756-63, and the American Revolution from 1776-83.
Louis Lavergne III was undoubtedly displaced as a result of this episode, but the fact remains that he was still in the New Orleans area as late as 1778.
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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.
Frontenac is famous for repelling the attack of Sir William Phips, saying, "I will not respond to your general but through the mouths of my cannons and with gunfire."
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Frontenac, following in this respect in the footsteps of his predecessors, had issued trading licences which permitted the sale of intoxicants.
The defences had been strengthened, a fort was built at Cataraqui (now Kingston), Ontario, bearing the governor's name, and conditions of peace had been fairly maintained between the Iroquois on the one hand and the French and their allies, the Ottawas and the Hurons, on the other.
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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Montesquieu, Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de la Brede et de (1689-1755), French writer and jurist, born in the Château of La Brède, and educated...
Frontenac, Louis de Buade, Comte de Palluau et de: La Salle, René-Robert Cavelier, sieur de
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 Frontenac et Palluau, Comte de Biography / Biography of Frontenac et Palluau, Comte de Biography Biography
Louis de Buade, Comte de Frontenac et Palluau (1622-1698), was a controversial governor general of New France, architect of French westward expansion, and commander of French forces against the Iroquois and the English colonies during King William's War.
The Comte de Frontenac was born on May 22, 1622, at Saint-Germain.
Entering the army in his teens, Frontenac campaigned during the Thirty Years War and at the age of 21 was colonel of the Regiment of Normandy.
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Louis de Buade, Comte de Frontenac became the Governor of New France in the 1670's.
They reported to King Louis that Native Americans were being ruined by the trading post life style, especially the availability of brandy.
Francois de la Forest filed complaints against La Barre (Frontenac's replacement) and in 1684, Frontenac, whom King Louis was very fond of, was restored to Governor of New France.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Count Louis de Baude Frontenac
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.
Frontenac died sincerely regretted by the whole colony which he had saved from ruin.
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 1698 . 1714 . Asia . Louis de Buade de Frontenac . 1696 . June 19 . 16th century
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Louis de Buade, Comte de Frontenac et de Palluau May_22, 1622 - November_28, 1698 was a France French courtier and Governor of New France from 1672 to 1682 and from 1689 to his death in 1698.
Frontenac had a short lived marriage to Anne de la Grange-Trianon...
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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".
Frontenac's reforms met with little favor from his sovereign and he was shorn of much of his power.
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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lwē de büäd´ koNt de pälüō´ ā de frôNtenäk´), 1620-98, French governor of New France.
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