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Count Frontenac and New France Under Louis XIV (Large Print Edition)
Count Frontenac and New France Under Louis XIV - Large Print Edition Author:Kathleen Thompson Norris 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 pett... more »y and personal, sometimes of momentous consequence, involving the question of national ascendancy on this continent.« less