Frontenac

/ frɔ̃tnak (e palyo) /

noun

1. Frontenac (et Palluau), Comte de16201698MFrenchPOLITICS: colonial administrator Comte de (kɔ̃t də). title of Louis de Buade . 1620–98, governor of New France (1672–82; 1689–98)

Example Sentences

Frontenac was a good general, and had much influence over the Indians.

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In the time of Frontenac there was a palliating motive for such barbarous warfare.

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It was even proposed to abandon Chambly and Fort Frontenac, and concentrate all available force to defend the heart of the colony.

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Four years later, Count Frontenac sent him to the Sioux country again.

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A governor of New York, moreover, even were he as keen and far-seeing as Frontenac himself, would often have been helpless.

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