Frontenac

Frontenac, LOUIS DE BUADE, COMTE DE, governor of New France, was born in 1620, entered the army in 1635, and at an early age became brigadier. In 1672 he was appointed governor of the French possessions in North America, to be recalled ten years later, in consequence of endless quarrels with his intendant and the Jesuits; but in spite of his violent temper he had gained the confidence of the settlers and the respect of the Indians, and in 1689, when to the horror of constant attacks from the Iroquois the misery of a war with England was added, he was again sent out by the king, as the only man who could rouse the despairing colonists to hope and action. During the next nine years he loosed his savage allies on the defenceless villages of New England, repulsed a British attack on Quebec, and so broke the power of the Iroquois that they were never again a terror to the colony. He died at Quebec in 1698. See Francis Parkman's Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV. (Boston, 1877).