BIOGRAPHY
(1620-1698)
Louis de Buade, Marquis de Frontenac
had an interesting career
where he wrestled for many of his successes
He lived in a time where the Iroquois (Mohawks) allied to the English of New-England were successfully raging war against the French and their First Nation allies.
It would soon be the end of the Indian wars but for now it was necessary to use great diplomacy to get back taken hostages, as in the 1689 case of the Chevalier Pierre Jean D'au-Jolliet when both Labeausiere and the Interpretor Colin were burnt at the stake by the Iroquois after Frontenac sent them and Sieur de Lachauvignerie and the son of Bonat.
In 1689, just before he was sent on mission by Frontenac, D'au-Jolliet married Anne Marsolet Lemire, third daughter of Jean Lemire and Louise Marsolet de St-Aignan. She was a grand-daughter of Nicholas Marsolet who had died a dozen years before her wedding. Eventually D'au-Jolliet died, in 1694, and he had a daughter, Madeleine, who died young.
As a passionate explorer, he definitly was first rate; as Governor of "la Nouvelle-France" he was sometimes at odds with the inhabitants, as was exemplified by his experience with Mathieu Damours, husband of Marie Marsolet de St-Aignan, the daughter of Nicholas Marsolet and Marie LeBarbier, when he was dismissed until he was able to work himself up at the Court of France to be re-instated as Governor.
During that time, in 1682, Claude Charron de La Barre, husband of Elizabeth/Isabeau Damours (b.1658, daughter of Mathieu Damours and Marie de St-Aignan)
was given the interim Governorship of New-France
It had been a mistake on the part of Frontenac to have Mathieu Damours secretly incarcerated, Damours a sincere respectable retainer of the King, since not only was his family held in high esteem by the Royal Family, ever since one of his Great-GrandFathers had saved the life of Louis XII at Damiette, during one of the Holy Crusades, but Mathieu was personally known by Louis the XIV, having lived at the French Court until he was 36 when he came to Canada to be the husband of the eldest daughter of Nicholas Marsolet
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