Louis de Buade de Frontenac, French soldier and politician, 3rd Governor General of New France (born 1622)

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 battles against the English and the Iroquois.

Governor General of New France was the vice-regal post in New France from 1663 until 1760 and the last French vice-regal post. It replaced the post of Governor of New France, and was replaced by the British post of Governor of the Province of Quebec following the fall of New France.