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

by Francis Parkman

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781411445369
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble
Publication date:	08/30/2011
Series:	Barnes & Noble Digital Library
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	492
File size:	542 KB
Age Range:	3 Months to 18 Years

About the Author

Francis Parkman (1823–1893) was one of America’s greatest historians and adventurers. He is best known for The Oregon Trail and his masterly seven-volume series, France and England in North America, which Edmund Wilson called "among the most brilliant achievements of the writing of history as an art."  The annual prize awarded by the Society of American Historians is named after him.