Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 109 June to November 1904 . nds of his son,Seignelay. The Kings mind was preju-diced against him by influences that werealways at court, and Louis was too dull tosee that Frenchmen scattered throughthe woods of a new country, dwellingamong American Indians, could not begoverned by the same methods that weresuccessful restraints when applied tocompact communities in the provincesof France. During the war with the English, theIndians of the West and the Abenakis ofthe East remained true to France. Fron-tenac had inspired them with awe, orhad attracted them by
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 109 June to November 1904 . nds of his son,Seignelay. The Kings mind was preju-diced against him by influences that werealways at court, and Louis was too dull tosee that Frenchmen scattered throughthe woods of a new country, dwellingamong American Indians, could not begoverned by the same methods that weresuccessful restraints when applied tocompact communities in the provincesof France. During the war with the English, theIndians of the West and the Abenakis ofthe East remained true to France. Fron-tenac had inspired them with awe, orhad attracted them by a personalitywhich charmed at the court of Versaillesor at a council-fire in the forest. Atlast, in 1697, Louis signed the Peaceof Ryswick, and, in doing so, surrenderedmuch which his American colony hadgained, among the gains being thosemade by Iberville on the shores of Hud-sons Bay, where French victories weretoo fresh to have been known in Europewhen the treaty of peace was treaty put an end, for the moment,to the war between the French and the. Hennepins Map of Eastern North AmericaFrom A New Discovery, by Father Hennepin English colonies, but hostilities broke outagain. Accommodations which were satis-factory to Louis and to William in Eu-rope could not put an end to the strifebetween Frenchmen whose prosperitywas conditioned on a free path to theWest past the Iroquois, and English-men whose gains depended upon block-ing that pathway with the assistance ofthe Iroquois. In two years after the signing of thePeace of Ryswick, and after a final orderof the court forbidding passes to tradersof the woods, which seemed to put a stopto French expansion to the West, andtherefore to spell ruin to Frontenacsplans, this most brilliant figure of thenew country died, in the seventy-eighthyear of his age. His work did not diewith him, for it was taken up by his successor, Callieres, who had been Gov-ernor of Montreal, and Frontenacsfriend. The treaty of peace which Fron-tena
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