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1690.
DEFENCE OF QUEBEC.
Phips on the St. Lawrence.--Phips at Quebec.--A Flag of Truce.--Scene
at the Chateau.--The Summons and the Answer.--Plan of
Attack.--Landing of the English.--The Cannonade.--The Ships
repulsed.--The Land Attack.--Retreat of Phips.--Condition of
Quebec.--Rejoicings of the French.--Distress at Boston.
CHAPTER XIV
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1690-1694.
THE SCOURGE OF CANADA.
Iroquois Inroads.--Death of Bienville.--English Attack.--A Desperate
Fight.--Miseries of the Colony.--Alarms.--A Winter Expedition.--La
Chesnaye burned.--The Heroine of Verehères.--Mission Indians.--The
Mohawk Expedition.--Retreat and Pursuit.--Relief arrives.--Frontenac
Triumphant.
CHAPTER XV
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1691-1695.

AN INTERLUDE.
Appeal of Frontenac.--His Opponents.--His Services.--Rivalry and
Strife.--Bishop Saint-Vallier.--Society at the Chateau.--Private
Theatricals.--Alarm of the Clergy.--Tartuffe.--A Singular
Bargain.--Mareuil and the Bishop.--Mareuil on Trial.--Zeal of
Saint-Vallier.--Scandals at Montreal.--Appeal to the King.--The Strife
composed.--Libel against Frontenac.
CHAPTER XVI
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1690-1694.
THE WAR IN ACADIA.
State of that Colony.--The Abenakis.--Acadia and New England.--
Pirates.--Baron de Saint-Castin.--Pentegoet.--The English
Frontier.--The French and the Abenakis.--Plan of the War.--Capture of
York.--Villebon.--Grand War-party.--Attack of Wells.--Pemaquid
rebuilt.--John Nelson.--A Broken Treaty.--Villieu and Thury.--Another
War-party.--Massacre at Oyster River.
CHAPTER XVII
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1690-1697.
NEW FRANCE AND NEW ENGLAND.
The Frontier of New England.--Border Warfare.--Motives of the
French.--Needless Barbarity.--Who were answerable?--Father Thury.--
The Abenakis waver.--Treachery at Pemaquid.--Capture of Pemaquid.--
Projected Attack on Boston.--Disappointment.--Miseries of the
Frontier.--A Captive Amazon.
CHAPTER XVIII
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1693-1697.
FRENCH AND ENGLISH RIVALRY.
Le Moyne d'Iberville.--His Exploits in Newfoundland.--In Hudson's
Bay.--The Great Prize.--The Competitors.--Fatal Policy of the
King.--The Iroquois Question.--Negotiation.--Firmness of
Frontenac.--English Intervention.--War renewed.--State of the

West.--Indian Diplomacy.--Cruel Measures.--A Perilous Crisis.--
Audacity of Frontenac.
CHAPTER XIX
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1696-1698.
FRONTENAC ATTACKS THE ONONDAGAS.
March of Frontenac.--Flight of the Enemy.--An Iroquois Stoic.--Relief
for the Onondagas.--Boasts of Frontenac.--His Complaints.--His
Enemies.--Parties in Canada.--Views of Frontenac and the
King.--Frontenac prevails.--Peace of Ryswick.--Frontenac and
Bellomont.--Schuyler at Quebec.--Festivities.--A Last Defiance.
CHAPTER XX
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1698.
DEATH OF FEONTENAC.
His Last Hours.--His Will.--His Funeral.--His Eulogist and his
Critic.--His Disputes with the Clergy.--His Character.
CHAPTER XXI
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1699-1701.
CONCLUSION.
The New Governor.--Attitude of the Iroquois.--Negotiations.--Embassy
to Onondaga.--Peace.--The Iroquois and the Allies.--Difficulties.--
Death of the Great Huron.--Funeral Rites.--The Grand Council.--The
Work of Frontenac finished.--Results.
APPENDIX

[Illustration: Map of Canada and Adjacent Countries towards the Close
of the 17th century.]

CHAPTER I
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1620-1672.
COUNT AND COUNTESS FRONTENAC.
MADEMOISELLE DE MONTPENSIER AND MADAME DE
FRONTENAC.--ORLEANS.--THE MARÉCHALE DE
CAMP.--COUNT FRONTENAC.--CONJUGAL
DISPUTES.--EARLY LIFE OF FRONTENAC.--HIS COURTSHIP
AND MARRIAGE.--ESTRANGEMENT.--SCENES AT ST.
FARGEAU.--THE LADY OF HONOR DISMISSED.--FRONTENAC
AS A SOLDIER.--HE IS MADE GOVERNOR OF NEW
FRANCE.--LES DIVINES.
At Versailles there is the portrait of a lady, beautiful and young. She is
painted as Minerva, a plumed helmet on her head, and a shield on her
arm. In a corner of the canvas is written _Anne de La Grange-Trianon,
Comtesse de Frontenac_. This blooming goddess was the wife of the
future governor of Canada.
Madame de Frontenac, at the age of about twenty, was a favorite
companion of Mademoiselle de Montpensier, the grand-daughter of
Henry IV. and daughter of the weak and dastardly Gaston, Duke of
Orleans. Nothing in French annals has found more readers than the
story of the exploit of this spirited princess at Orleans during the civil
war of the Fronde. Her cousin Condé, chief of the revolt, had found
favor in her eyes; and she had espoused his cause against her cousin,
the king. The royal army threatened Orleans. The duke, her father,
dared not leave Paris; but he consented that his daughter should go in
his place to hold the city for Condé and the Fronde.
The princess entered her carriage and set out on her errand, attended by
a small escort. With her were three young married ladies, the Marquise
de Bréauté, the Comtesse de Fiesque, and the Comtesse de Frontenac.
In two days they reached Orleans. The civic authorities were afraid to
declare against the king, and hesitated to open the gates to the daughter
of their duke, who, standing in the moat with her three companions,
tried persuasion and threats in vain. The prospect was not encouraging,
when a crowd of boatmen came up from the river and offered the
princess their services. "I accepted them gladly," she writes, "and said a
thousand fine things, such as one must say to that sort of people to
make them do what one wishes." She gave them money as well as fair
words, and begged them to burst open one of the gates. They fell at

once to the work; while the guards and officials looked down from the
walls, neither aiding nor resisting them. "To animate the boatmen by
my presence," she continues, "I mounted a hillock near by. I did not
look to see which way I went, but clambered up like a cat, clutching
brambles and thorns, and jumping over hedges without hurting myself.
Madame de Bréauté, who is the most cowardly creature in the world,
began to cry out against me and everybody who followed me; in fact, I
do not know if she did not swear in her excitement, which amused