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The events recounted in this book group themselves in the main about a single figure, that of Count Frontenac, the most remarkable man who ever represented the crown of France in the New World. From strangely unpromising beginnings, he grew with every emergency, and rose equal to every crisis. His whole career was one of conflict, sometimes petty and personal, sometimes of momentous consequence, involving the question of national ascendancy on this continent. Now that this question is put at rest for ever, it is hard to conceive, the anxiety which it wakened in our forefathers. But for one rooted error of French policy, the. | Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV with accents 1 Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV with accents The Project Gutenberg EBook of Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV by Francis Parkman 3 in our series by Francis Parkman Copyright laws are changing all over the world. Be sure to check the copyright laws for your country before downloading or redistributing this or any other Project Gutenberg eBook. This header should be the first thing seen when viewing this Project Gutenberg file. Please do not remove it. Do not change or edit the header without written permission. Please read the legal small print and other information about the eBook and Project Gutenberg at the bottom of this file. Included is important information about your specific rights and restrictions in how the file may be used. You can also find out about how to make a donation to Project Gutenberg and how to get involved. Welcome To The World of Free Plain Vanilla Electronic Texts eBooks Readable By Both Humans and By Computers Since 1971 These eBooks Were Prepared By Thousands of Volunteers Title Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV Author Francis Parkman Release Date November 2004 EBook 6875 Yes we are more than one year ahead of schedule This file was first posted on February 6 2003 Edition 10 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK COUNT FRONTENAC AND NEW FRANCE Produced by Robert Fite Tom Allen David Moynihan Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. Transcriber s Note Lengthy footnotes or those consisting of more than one paragraph have been numbered and relocated to the end of the chapter in which they occur. They are marked by 1 2 etc. COUNT FRONTENAC AND NEW FRANCE Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV with accents UNDER LOUIS XIV. 2 BY FRANCIS PARKMAN AUTHOR OF PIONEERS OF FRANCE IN THE NEW WORLD THE JESUITS IN NORTH AMERICA THE DISCOVERY OF THE GREAT WEST AND THE OLD REGIME