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The Fighting Governor
Charles W. Colby
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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.
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.
This book follows Frontenac through his life as a public officer in Canada.
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.
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.
This book follows Frontenac through his life as a public officer in Canada.
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Louis de Frontenac came to Canada ("New France") in 1672 as Governor-General of the colony which eventually became Quebec. At the time, there were about 7000 colonists, all under the direct supervision of the King of France. Frontenac had been a French soldier and was well known in the King's court.