The Works of Francis Parkman: Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIVLittle, Brown,, 1897 |
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... hope that a speedy and glorious peace would leave his Majesty free to turn his thoughts to the colony which already owed so much to his fostering care . " The true means , " pursued Frontenac , " of gaining his favor and his support ...
... hope that a speedy and glorious peace would leave his Majesty free to turn his thoughts to the colony which already owed so much to his fostering care . " The true means , " pursued Frontenac , " of gaining his favor and his support ...
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... hope that Frontenac and he would keep the peace . All the signs of the sky foreboded storm . The storm soon came . The occasion of it was that old vexed question of the sale of brandy , which has been fully treated in another volume , 1 ...
... hope that Frontenac and he would keep the peace . All the signs of the sky foreboded storm . The storm soon came . The occasion of it was that old vexed question of the sale of brandy , which has been fully treated in another volume , 1 ...
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... hope of making me appear their principal author , has been so great that the last ships were hardly gone , when , forgetting what your Majesty had enjoined upon us both , he began these dissensions afresh , in spite of all my ...
... hope of making me appear their principal author , has been so great that the last ships were hardly gone , when , forgetting what your Majesty had enjoined upon us both , he began these dissensions afresh , in spite of all my ...
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... hope , Monseigneur , that you will have the goodness to con- descend to be moved by their misfortunes . No posi- tion could be more distressing than mine , since , if I conceal the truth from you , I fail in the obedience I owe the King ...
... hope , Monseigneur , that you will have the goodness to con- descend to be moved by their misfortunes . No posi- tion could be more distressing than mine , since , if I conceal the truth from you , I fail in the obedience I owe the King ...
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... hope of justifying what he has asserted about my pretended outbreaks of anger . " 1 The mutual charges of the two functionaries were much the same ; and , so far at least as concerns trade , there can be little doubt that they were well ...
... hope of justifying what he has asserted about my pretended outbreaks of anger . " 1 The mutual charges of the two functionaries were much the same ; and , so far at least as concerns trade , there can be little doubt that they were well ...
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Abbé Abenakis Albany Andros Août arms arrived attack Barre begged Belmont Big Mouth bishop burned Callières Canada Canadian canoes captured Champigny charge chief Colbert colony command Comte de Frontenac Corlaer council coureurs de bois declared Denonville au Ministre despatches Docs Dongan to Denonville Duchesneau Durantaye Dutch enemy England English father Fénelon fight fire Five Nations forest Fort Frontenac France French friends Frontenac au Ministre garrison governor honor Hontan hundred Hurons Ibid Illinois intendant Iroquois Jesuits Juin killed King La Barre Lake Lamberville letter Lhut Louis XIV Madame de Frontenac Mademoiselle de Montpensier Majesty Mantet Mémoire Meules Michilimackinac mission Mohawks Monsieur Montreal Moyne Niagara Nicolas Perrot Novembre officer Onondaga Onontio Ottawas Ourehaoué palisades party peace Perrot Potherie priests prisoners Quebec royal Saint-Vallier Salle savages says Schenectady Seignelay seized Senecas sent soldiers tion told town trade tribes troops villages warriors wrote York
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Página 242 - English town, and have a guard for our defence and safety ; then we would surrender; and also that the governour of the French should hold up his hand and swear by the great and ever living God that the several articles should be performed : all which he did solemnly swear.
Página 111 - First, they had maltreated and robbed French traders in the country of the Illinois ; " wherefore," said the governor, " I am ordered to demand reparation, and in case of refusal to declare war against you." Next, " the warriors of the Five Nations have introduced the English into the lakes which belong to the king my master, and among the tribes who are his children, in order to destroy the trade of his subjects, and seduce these people from the obedience they owe him. I am willing to forget this...
Página 24 - ... the states-general of the kingdom, in order, perhaps, to abolish insensibly this ancient usage, you, on your part, should very rarely, or, to speak more correctly, never, give a corporate form to the inhabitants of Canada. You should even, as the colony strengthens, suppress gradually the office of the syndic, who presents petitions in the name of the inhabitants; for it is well that each should speak for himself, and no one for all.
Página v - 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.
Página 70 - Perrot's avidity sometimes carried him to singular extremities. "He has been seen," says one of his accusers, "filling barrels of brandy with his own hands, and mixing it with water to sell to the Indians. He bartered with one of them his hat, sword, coat, ribbons, shoes, and stockings, and boasted that he had made thirty pistoles by the bargain, while the Indian walked about town equipped as...
Página 242 - if there were any French among them, and if they would give us quarter. They answered that they were Frenchmen, and that they would give us good quarter. Upon this...
Página vii - ... valiantly, and for a time how successfully, New France battled against a fate which her own organic fault made inevitable. Her history is a great and significant drama, enacted among untamed forests, with a distant gleam of courtly splendors and the regal pomp of Versailles." He tries to tell the story "not in the interest of any race or nationality, but simply in that of historical truth.
Página 199 - It will be well to observe what were the intentions of the king towards the colony which he proposed to conquer. They were as follows : If any Catholics were found in New York, they might be left undisturbed, provided that they took an oath of allegiance to the king. Officers, and other persons who had the means of paying ransoms, were to be thrown into prison. All lands in the colony, except those of Catholics swearing allegiance, were to be taken from their owners, and granted under a feudal tenure...