The violence of Frontenac’s resentments and antipathies overcame the very slender share of prudence with which nature had endowed him.Our
Parkman Vol. 5, Chapter 4
It is no longer necessary for me to enter into particulars, which could only serve to show you that you are completely in the wrong."Our special
Frontenac and Fenelon
Among the priests of St. Sulpice at Montreal was the Abbé Salignac de Fénelon, half-brother of the celebrated author of Télémaque. He was a zealous
Parkman Vol. 5, Chapter 3
A storm was brewing; it was fortunate for the peace of the Canadian Church that the attention of the truculent governor was drawn to other
Parkman Vol. 5, Chapter 2
Frontenac was fifty-two years old when he landed at Quebec. If time had done little to cure his many faults, it had done nothing to weaken the springs
Beginning of Parkman’s Volume 5
Our special project presenting the definitive account of France in Canada by Francis Parkman, one of America's greatest historians. Beginning Count
La Salle and Fenelon
Then Fénelon mounted the pulpit.Previously in The Discovery of the Great West.Our special project presenting the definitive account of
La Salle and Frontenac
Frontenac, to impose respect on the Iroquois, now set his canoes in order of battle.Previously in The Discovery of the Great West.Our