Louis de Buade de Frontenac

Louis de Buade de Frontenac
Illustration of Frontenac
3rd and 6th Governor General of New France
In office 1672–1682
Monarch	Louis XIV
Deputy	none (1672–1675) Jacques Duchesneau de la Doussinière et d'Ambault (1675–1682)
Preceded by	Daniel de Rémy de Courcelle
Succeeded by	Joseph-Antoine Le Febvre de La Barre
In office 1689–1698
Monarch	Louis XIV
Deputy	Jean Bochart de Champigny
Preceded by	Jacques-René de Brisay de Denonville, Marquis de Denonville
Succeeded by	Louis-Hector de Callière
Personal details
Born	22 May 1622 Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France
Died	28 November 1698(1698-11-28) (aged 76) Chateau St-Louis, Quebec City, New France
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Louis de Buade, Comte de Frontenac et de Palluau (French pronunciation: [lwi də bɥad kɔ̃t də fʁɔ̃tənak e də palɥo]; 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 engaged in a series of battles against the English and the Iroquois.^[1]

In his first term, he supported the expansion of the fur trade, establishing Fort Frontenac (in what is 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 conflict with the Sovereign Council led to his recall in 1682.

His second term was characterised by the defence of Quebec from an English invasion during King William's War, a successful campaign against Iroquois and English settlements that resulted in the elimination of the Iroquois threat against New France and a large expansion of the fur trade using Canadian coureurs des bois. He died before his second recall to France.