Louis de Buade de Frontenac, French soldier and governor (died 1698)

Louis de Buade de Frontenac

Soldier and Governor of New France (r. 1672-82, 1689-98)

Louis de Buade, Comte de Frontenac et de Palluau was a French soldier, courtier, and Governor General of New France in North America from 1672 to 1682, and again from 1689 to his death in 1698. He established a number of Forts on the Great Lakes and engaged in a series of…