35
Ibid., 18 Mai, 1677.
36
Le Roy à Frontenac, 25 Avril, 1679.
37
Colbert à Duchesneau, 8 Mai, 1679
38
Frontenac au Ministre, 14 Nov., 1674
39
Declaration du Roy, 23 Sept., 1675.
40
"Présider au Conseil Souverain en l'absence du dit Sieur de Frontenac."Commission de Duchesneau, 5 Juin, 1675.
41
This letter, still preserved in the Archives de la Marine, is dated 12 Mai, 1678. Several other letters of Louis XIV. give Frontenac the same designation.
42
Le Roy à Frontenac, 29 Avril, 1680. A decree of the council of state soon after determined the question of presidency in accord with this letter. Édits et Ordonnances, I. 238.
43
Colbert à Frontenac, 4 Dec., 1679. This letter seems to have been sent by a special messenger by way of New England. It was too late in the season to send directly to Canada. On the quarrel about the presidency, Duchesneau au Ministre, 10 Nov., 1679; Auteuil au Ministre, 10 Aug., 1679; Contestations entre le Sieur Comte de Frontenac et M. Duchesneau, Chevalier. This last paper consists of voluminous extracts from the records of the council.
44
Registre du Conseil Supérieur, 16 Aoûst, 1681.
45
Registre du Conseil Supérieur, 4 Nov., 1681.
46
Registre de Conseil Supérieur, 1681.
47
Colbert à Duchesneau, 15 Mai, 1678.
48
Le Roy à Frontenac, 12 Mai, 1678.
49
Colbert à Duchesneau, 25 Avril, 1679.
50
Duchesneau au Ministre, 10 Nov., 1679.
51
Le Roy à Frontenac, 29 Avril, 1680.
52
Frontenac au Maréchal de Bellefonds, 14 Nov., 1680.
53
Mémoire et Preuves du Désordre des Coureurs de Bois.
54
Frontenac au Roy, 2 Nov., 1681.
55
Duchesneau au Ministre, 13 Nov., 1681.
56
Frontenac au Ministre, 2 Nov., 1681.
57
Mémoire de l'Evesque de Quebec, Mars, 1681 (printed in Revue Canadienne, 1873). The bishop is silent about the barricades of which Frontenac and his friends complain in several letters.
58
See, among other instances, the Défense de M. de Frontenac par un de ses Amis, published by Abbé Verreau in the Revue Canadienne, 1873.
59
Plumitif du Conseil Souverain, 1681.
60
Conduite du Sieur Perrot, Gouverneur de Montréal en la Nouvelle France, 1681; Plainte du Sieur Bouthier, 10 Oct., 1680; Procès-verbal des huissiers de Montréal.
61
Conduite du Sieur Perrot. La Barre, Frontenac's successor, declares that the charges against Perrot were false, including the attestations of Migeon and his friends; that Dollier de Casson had been imposed upon, and that various persons had been induced to sign unfounded statements without reading them. La Barre au Ministre, 4 Nov., 1683.
62
Le Roy à Frontenac, 30 Avril, 1681.
63
La Barre says that Duchesneau was far more to blame than Frontenac. La Barre au Ministre, 1683. This testimony has weight, since Frontenac's friends were La Barre's enemies.
64
Registre du Conseil-Supérieur, 16 Fév., 1682.
65
Frontenac, Mémoire adressé à Colbert, 1677. This remarkable paper will be found in the Découvertes et Établissements des Français dans l'Amérique Septentrionale; Mémoires et Documents Originaux, edited by M. Margry. The paper is very long, and contains references to attestations and other proofs which accompanied it, especially in regard to the trade of the Jesuits.
66
Note by Abbé Verreau, in Journal de l'Instruction Publique (Canada), VIII. 127.
67
Chartier de Lotbinière, Procès-verbal sur l'Incendie de la Basse Ville; Meules au Ministre, 6 Oct., 1682; Juchereau, Histoire de l'Hôtel-Dieu de Québec, 256.
68
Meules au Ministre, 6 Oct., 1682.
69
Jesuits in North America.
70
Discovery of the Great West.
71
Duchesneau, Memoir on Western Indians in N. Y. Colonial Docs., IX. 160.
72
For the papers on this affair, see N. Y. Colonial Docs., IX.
73
P. Jean de Lamberville à Frontenac, 20 Sept., 1682.
74
La Barre au Roy, (4 Oct.?) 1682.
75
La Barre à Seignelay, 1682.
76
He was made governor of Cayenne, and went thither with Tracy in 1664. Two years later, he gained several victories over the English, and recaptured Cayenne, which they had taken in his absence. He wrote a book concerning this colony, called Description de la France Équinoctiale. Another volume, called Journal du Voyage du Sieur de la Barre en la Terre Ferme et Isle de Cayenne, was printed at Paris in 1671.