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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK COUNT FRONTENAC AND NEW FRANCE
***Author of the "History of the Conspiracy of Pontiac," "The Oregon Trail," "The Old Régime in Canada," etc.
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company. 1877.
Entered According to Act of Congress in the year 1877, by Francis Parkman, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
Count Frontenac and New France Under Louis XIV.
Author of "Pioneers of France in the New World," "The Jesuits in North America," "The Discovery of the Great West," and "The Old Régime in Canada."
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company. 1877.
Entered According to Act of Congress in the year 1877, by Francis Parkman, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
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 future of the English-speaking races in America would have been more than endangered.