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the coareurs de bois, whom he hanged when break- 

 ing laws for his rival, found complete impunity 

 when breaking laws for him. 



Meanwhile, there was a deep though subdued 

 excitement among the priests of St. Sulpice. The. 

 right of naming their own governor, which they 

 claimed as seigniors of Montreal, had been violated 

 by the action of Frontenac in placing La Nouguere 

 in command without consulting them. Perrot was 

 a bad governor ; but it was they who had chosen 

 him, and the recollection of his misdeeds did not 

 reconcile them to a successor arbitrarily imposed 

 upon them. Both they and the colonists, their 

 vassals, were intensely jealous of Quebec; and, in 

 their indignation against Frontenac, they more 

 than half forgave Perrot. None among them all 

 was so angry as the Abbe* Fenelon. He believed 

 that he had been used to lure Perrot into a trap ; 

 and his past attachment to the governor-general 

 was turned into wrath. High words had passed 

 between them; and, when Fenelon returned to 

 Montreal, he vented his feelings in a sermon plainly 

 levelled at Frontenac. 1 So sharp and bitter was 

 it, that his brethren of St. Sulpice hastened to dis- 

 claim it; and Dollier de Casson, their Superior, 

 strongly reproved the preacher, who protested in 

 return that his words were not meant to apply to 

 Frontenac in particular, but only to bad rulers in 

 general. His offences, however, did not cease 

 with the sermon ; for he espoused the cause of 



1 Information faite par nous, Charles le Tardieu, Sieur de Tilly. Tilly 

 was a commissioner sent by the council to inquire into the affair. 



