COUNT FEONTENAC AND NEW FRANCE 

 UNDER LOUIS XIV. 



CHAPTER I. 



1620-1672. 

 COUNT AND COUNTESS FRONTENAC. 



Mademoiselle de Montpensier and Madame de Frontenac. — 

 Orleans. — The Marechale de Camp. — Count Frontenac. — 

 Conjugal Disputes. — Early Life op Frontenac. — His 

 Courtship and Marriage. — Estrangement. — Scenes at St. 

 Fargeau. — The Lady of Honor dismissed. — Frontenac as a 

 Soldier. — He is made Governor op New France. — Les 

 Divines. 



At Versailles there is the portrait of a lady, 

 beautiful and young. She is painted as Minerva, 

 a plumed helmet on her head, and a shield on her 

 arm. In a corner of the canvas is written Anne 

 de La Grange- Trianon, Comtesse de Frontenac. 

 This blooming goddess was the wife of the future 

 governor of Canada. 



Madame de Frontenac, at the age of about 

 twenty, was a favorite companion of Mademoiselle 

 de Montpensier, the grand-daughter of Henry IV. 

 and daughter of the weak and dastardly Gaston, 

 Duke of Orleans. Nothing in French annals has 

 found more readers than the story of the exploit 

 of this spirited princess at Orleans during the civil 



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