Count Frontenac and New France Under Louis XIV (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

Louis de Buade, Comte de Frontenac et de Palluau (1622-1698), was Governor-General of French Canada. In this 1877 installment of his monumental France and England in North America, Parkman documents the man’s early life, his rise to power, his arrival in Quebec, and his struggles against the Native Americans and British colonists.