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first councillor, Villeray, repaired to the chateau to 

 submit it to him. After making him an harangue 

 of compliment, and protesting the anxiety of him- 

 self and his colleagues to receive him with all 

 possible honor, he explained the plan, and assured 

 Frontenac that, if not wholly satisfactory, it should 

 be changed to suit his pleasure. " To which," says 

 the record, " Monsieur the governor only answered 

 that the council could consult the bishop and other 

 persons acquainted with such matters." The bishop 

 was consulted, but pleaded ignorance. Another 

 debate followed ; and the first councillor was again 

 despatched to the chateau, with proposals still more 

 deferential than the last, and full power to yield, 

 in addition, whatever the governor might desire. 

 Frontenac replied that, though they had made propo- 

 sals for his reception when he should present himself 

 at the council for the first time, they had not informed 

 him what ceremony they meant to observe when 

 he should come to the subsequent sessions. This 

 point also having been thoroughly debated, Yilleray 

 went again to the count, and with great deference 

 laid before him the following plan : That, whenever 

 it should be his pleasure to make his first visit to 

 the council, four of its number should repair to 

 the chateau, and accompany him, with every mark 

 of honor, to the palace of the intendant, where the 

 sessions were held; and that, on his subsequent 

 visits, two councillors should meet him at the head 

 of the stairs, and conduct him to his seat. The 

 envoy farther protested that, if this failed to meet 

 his approval, the council would conform itself to 



