Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 109 June to November 1904 . ous citizens of the king-dom; and the contest between theChurch and the state went on. Cour-celle and Talon did their best, andTalon was one of the ablest statesmenever employed by France at home orabroad. He seconded bravely Colbertscolonial policy. He hoped to encourageCanadian immigration; he pushed theuseful works of the colony with energy. The population had increased underthis administration, by 1671, to 6000people; but still it was not a land ofsuch hardy, industrious, and intelligentpioneers as were the colonies fartherso
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 109 June to November 1904 . ous citizens of the king-dom; and the contest between theChurch and the state went on. Cour-celle and Talon did their best, andTalon was one of the ablest statesmenever employed by France at home orabroad. He seconded bravely Colbertscolonial policy. He hoped to encourageCanadian immigration; he pushed theuseful works of the colony with energy. The population had increased underthis administration, by 1671, to 6000people; but still it was not a land ofsuch hardy, industrious, and intelligentpioneers as were the colonies farthersouth. Canada was a military King urged the soldiers of the Cari-gnan-Salieres regiment to remain, and ofthose who acquiesced the officers be-came feudal seigneurs and the menfeudal tenants. It was during thisadministration, also, that French ad-venturers, La Salle among them, beganto peer into the wildernesses of theWest. Courcelle and Talon, the Kingsefficient officers, established the politicalinterest in Canada alongside of the mis- FRONTENAC. 779. sionary interest, and pointed out the Intendant felt himself to be, and inway which France should take, or at reality he was, quite as independent ofleast the way in which she should try the Governor-General as was the bishop,to go, during the coming period, which The latter, too, was Frontenacs enemy,included the two administra-tions of Frontenac, the mostbrilliant epoch of Canadianhistory under French rule. It was in 1672 that Louisde Buade, Comte de Palluauet de Frontenac, became Gov-ernor - General of said that Frontenacwas the most remarkableman who ever representedthe crown of France in theNew World. It could easilybe added that he was themost remarkable Europeanin America during the lastthirty years of the seven-teenth century. At the timeof his appointment he wasfifty-two years old, a soldierof broken fortunes, who hadserved the King faithfullyand well in the wars in Flan-ders, Italy, and
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