Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV / by Francis Parkman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Parkman, Francis, 1823-1893, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canada--History--To 1763 (New France).

Canada.

Frontenac, Louis de Buade, comte de, 1622-1698.

Frontenac, Louis de Buade.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 463 pages)

Place of Publication:

Boston : Little, Brown, 1877.

Summary:

This is the second of two Library of America volumes (the companion volume here) presenting, in compact form, all seven parts of Francis Parkman's monumental narrative history of the struggle for control of the American continent. Thirty years in the writing, Parkman's "history of the American forest" is an accomplishment hardly less awesome than the explorations and adventures he so vividly describes. The story reaches its climax with the fatal confrontation of two great commanders at Quebec's Plains of Abraham-and a daring stratagem that would determine the future of a continent. Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV (1877) details how France might have won her imperial struggle with England. Frontenac, a courtier who was made governor of New France by that most sagacious of monarchs, oversaw the colony's brightest era of growth and influence. Had Canada's later governors possessed his administrative skill and personal force, his sense of diplomacy and political talent, or his grasp of the uses of power in a modern world, the English colonies to the south might have become part of what Frontenac saw as a continental scheme of French dominion. England's American colonies flourished, while France, in both the Old World and the New, declined from its greatness of the late seventeenth century. Conflict over the developing western regions of North America erupted in a series of colonial wars. As narrated by Parkman in A Half-Century of Conflict (1892), these American campaigns, while only part of a larger, global struggle, prepared the colonies for the American Revolution. In Montcalm and Wolfe (1884) Parkman describes the fatal confrontation of the two great French and English commanders whose climactic battle marked the end of French power in America. As the English colonies cooperated for their own defense, they began to realize their common interests, their relative strength, and their unique position. In this imperial war of European powers we also begin to see the American figures-Benjamin Franklin, George Washington-soon to occupy a historical stage of their own.

Contents:

Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV

1620-1672: Count and Countess Frontenac

1672-1675: Frontenac at Quebec

1673-1675: Frontenac and Perrot

1675-1682: Frontenac and Duchesneau

1682-1684: Le Febvre De La Barre - 1684: La Barre and the Iroquois

1685-1687: Denonville and Dongan - 1687: Denonville and the Senecas

1687-1689: the Iroquois invasion

1689,1690: return of Frontenac - 1690: the three war-parties - 1690: Massachusetts attacks Quebec - 1690: defense of Quebec

1690-1694: the scourge of Canada

1691-1695: an interlude

1690-1694: the war in Acadia

1690-1697: New France and New England

1693-1697: French and English rivalry

1696-1698: Frontenac attacks the Onondagas - 1698: death of Frontenac

1699-1701: conclusion.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.