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Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/Count Louis de Buade Frontenac
A governor of New France, b. at Paris, 1662; d. at Quebec, 28 Nov., 1698. His father was captain of the royal castle of St-Germain-en-laye; his mother, née Phelypeaux, was the daughter of the king's secretary of state; Louis XIII was his godfather. By his valour and skill he won the rank of marshall of the king's camps and armies. He served in Holland, France, Italy and Germany, and also in Candia where Turenne had sent him to command a contingent against the Turks. A brilliant military reputation, therefore, preceeded him to Canada. During his first administration (1672-1682) he built a fort at Cataracouy (now Kingston) to awe the Iroquois and facilitate communications with the West. To explore the course of the Mississippi, previously discovered by Joliet and Marquette, he sent Cavelier de La Salle, who named the country watered by that river Louisiana, in honour of Louis XIV. Although intelligent and magnanimous,
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Leader | Louis de Buade |
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Capital | Ville de Québec |
Start Bias | None |
Religion | Catholicism |
Culture | Colonial |
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New France led by Louis de Buade is a custom civilization mod by ExplosiveWatermelon, with contributions from Rhea and Arilasketo.
Overview[]
New France[]
The Mississippi and St. Lawrence waterways were easily navigable routes for a colonial power to take to colonize the great North American interior, and follow those routes, France did, founding the colonies of Canada, Acadie, Plaisance, Hudson’s Bay and La Louisiane, and uniting them all under the crown of New France. Lasting in one form or another between 1534 and 1763, New France was, at it’s height, the largest colony in North America.
Louis de Buade[]
Louis de Buade was a French soldier and courtier who served as Governor-General of New France on two separate occasions. His period was marked by expansion and war wit
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Louis de Buade de Frontenac
Soldier and Governor of New France (r. 1672-82, 1689-98)
Louis de Buade, Comte dem Frontenac et de Palluau (French pronunciation:[lwidəbɥadkɔ̃tdəfʁɔ̃tənakedəpalɥo]; 22 May 1622 – 28 November 1698) was a French soldier, courtier, and Governor General of New France in North America from 1672 to 1682, and again from 1689 to his death in 1698. He established a number of Forts on the Great Lakes and engagerad in a series of battles against the English and the Iroquois.[1]
In his first begrepp, he supported the expansion of the fur trade, establishing Fort Frontenac (in what fryst vatten now Kingston, Ontario) and came into conflict with the other members of the Sovereign Council[2] over its expansion and over the corvée that were required to build the new forts. In particular, despite the opposition of Bishop François de Laval, he supported selling brandy to the aboriginal tribes, which Laval considered a mortal sin. The confl