CHAPTER XX. 



1698. 



DEATH OF FRONTENAC. 



His Last Hours. — His Will. — His Funeral. — His Eulogist 

 and his Critic. — His Disputes with the Clergy. — His Char- 

 acter. 



In November, when the last ship had gone, and 

 Canada was sealed from the world for half a year, 

 a mortal illness fell upon the governor. On the 

 twenty-second, he had strength enough to dictate 

 his will, seated in an easy-chair in his chamber at 

 the chateau. His colleague and adversary, Cham- 

 pigny, often came to visit him, and did all in his 

 power to soothe his last moments. The reconcilia- 

 tion between them was complete. One of his 

 Recollet friends, Father Olivier Goyer, administered 

 extreme unction ; and, on the afternoon of the 

 twenty-eighth, he died, in perfect composure and 

 full possession of his faculties. He was in his 

 seventy-eighth year. 



He was greatly beloved by the humbler classes, 

 who, days before his death, beset the chateau, 

 praising and lamenting him. Many of higher 

 station shared the popular grief. " He was the 

 love and delight of New France," says one of 



