1698.] HIS LAST HOURS. 429 



them : " churchmen honored him for his piety, 

 nobles esteemed him for his valor, merchants re- 

 spected him for his equity, and the people loved 

 him for his kindness." 1 " He was the father of 

 the poor," says another, " the protector of the 

 oppressed, and a perfect model of virtue and 

 piety." 2 An Ursuline nun regrets him as the 

 friend and patron of her sisterhood, and so also 

 does the superior of the Hotel-Dieu. 3 His most 

 conspicuous though not his bitterest opponent, the 

 intenclant Champigny, thus announced his death 

 to the court : " I venture to send this letter by 

 way of New England to tell you that Monsieur le 

 Comte de Frontenac died on the twenty-eighth of 

 last month, with the sentiments of a true Christian. 

 After all the disputes we have had together, you 

 will hardly believe, Monseigneur, how truly and 

 deeply I am touched by his death. He treated me 

 during his illness in a manner so obliging, that I 

 should be utterly void of gratitude if I did not 

 feel thankful to him." 4 



As a mark of kind feeling, Frontenac had be- 

 queathed to the intenclant a valuable crucifix, and to 

 Madame de Champigny a reliquary which he had long 

 been accustomed to wear. For the rest, he gave fif- 

 teen hundred livres to the Eecollets, to be expended 

 in masses for his soul, and that of his wife after her 

 death. To her he bequeathed all the remainder of 



i La Potherie, I. 244, 246. 



2 Hennepin, 41 (1704). Le Clerc speaks to the same effect. 



3 Histoire des Ursulines de Quebec, I. 508 ; Juchereau, 378. 

 * Champigny au Mimstre, 22 Dec, 1698. 



