36 FRONTENAC AND PERROT. [1674. 



Perrot with more than zeal, and went about among 

 the colonists to collect attestations in his favor. 

 When these things were reported to Frontenac, 

 his ire was kindled, and he summoned Fenelon be- 

 fore the council at Quebec to answer the charge 

 of instigating sedition. 



Fenelon had a relative and friend in the person 

 of the Abbe d'Urfe, his copartner in the work of 

 the missions. D'Urfe, anxious to conjure down 

 the rising storm, went to Quebec to seek an inter- 

 view with Frontenac ; but, according to his own 

 account, he was very ill received, and threatened 

 with a prison. On another occasion, the count 

 showed him a letter in which D'Urfe was charged 

 with haying used abusive language concerning 

 him. Warm words ensued, till Frontenac, grasp- 

 ing his cane, led the abbe to the door and dis- 

 missed him, berating him from the top of the 

 stairs in tones so angry that the sentinel below 

 spread the report that he had turned his visitor 

 out of doors. 1 



Two offenders were now arraigned before the 

 council of Quebec : the first was Perrot, charged 

 .with disobeying the royal edicts and resisting the 

 royal authority ; the other was the Abbe Fenelon. 

 The councillors were at this time united in the 

 interest of Frontenac, who had the power of ap- 

 pointing and removing them. Perrot, in no way 

 softened by a long captivity, challenged the gov- 

 ernor-general, who presided at the council board, 

 as a party to the suit and his personal enemy, and 



1 Mtmoire de M. d'Urf€ a Colbert, extracts in Faillon. 



