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• Comte de Frontenac
  Born in 1622 at the chateau of St. Germain, Louis de Buade, Comte de Frontenac, was a member of the feudal aristocracy and a godson of King Louis XIII. A soldier and courtier, he was appointed governor general of New France in 1672 and promoted the colony's expansion through the establishment of fur trading posts in the interior of North America. The first of these, Fort Frontenac, was constructed in 1673 and was the first...