430 DEATH OF FRONTENAC. [1698. 



his small property, and he also directed that his 

 heart should be sent her in a case of lead or silver. 1 

 His enemies reported that she refused to accept it, 

 saying that she had never had it when he was 

 living, and did not want it when he was dead. 



On the Friday after his death, he was buried as 

 he had directed, not in the cathedral, but in the 

 church of the Recollets, a preference deeply offen- 

 sive to many of the clergy. The bishop officiated ; 

 and then the Recollet, Father Goyer, who had 

 attended his death-bed, and seems to have been his 

 confessor, mounted the pulpit, and delivered his 

 funeral oration. " This funeral pageantry," ex- 

 claimed the orator, " this temple draped in mourn- 

 ing, these dim lights, this sad and solemn music, 

 this great assembly bowed in sorrow, and all this 

 pomp and circumstance of death, may well pene- 

 trate your hearts. I will not seek to dry your 

 tears, for I cannot contain my own. After all, 

 this is a time to weep, and never did people weep 

 for a better governor." 



A copy of this eulogy fell into the hands of an 

 enemy of Frontenac, who wrote a running com- 

 mentary upon it. The copy thus annotated is still 

 preserved at Quebec. A few passages from the 

 orator and his critic will show the violent conflict 

 of opinion concerning the governor, and illustrate 

 in some sort, though with more force than fairness, 

 the contradictions of his character : — 



1 Testament du Comte de Frontenac. I am indebted to Abbe' Bois of 

 Maskinonge for a copy of this will. Frontenac expresses a wish that the 

 heart should be placed in the family tomb at the Church of St. Nicolas 

 des Champs. 



