France and England in North America, Part V: Count Frontenac, New France, Louis XIV
Francis Parkman · English
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France and England in North America, Part V: Count Frontenac, New France, Louis XIV
Francis Parkman · English
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PREFACE. 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
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