France . e expression then was, faithful servants ofFrance, passionately zealous for her glory, aiming high,ambitious or disinterested, able politicians or heroic pioneers,all ready to sacrifice both property and life for the honor andpower of their country: it is time to show how La Bourdon-nais, Dupleix, Bussy, Lally-Tolendal were treated in India;what assistance, what guidance, what encouragement theCanadians and their illustrious chiefs received from France,beginning with Champlain, one of the founders of the colony,and ending with Montcalm, its latest defender. It is a painfulbut a saluta
France . e expression then was, faithful servants ofFrance, passionately zealous for her glory, aiming high,ambitious or disinterested, able politicians or heroic pioneers,all ready to sacrifice both property and life for the honor andpower of their country: it is time to show how La Bourdon-nais, Dupleix, Bussy, Lally-Tolendal were treated in India;what assistance, what guidance, what encouragement theCanadians and their illustrious chiefs received from France,beginning with Champlain, one of the founders of the colony,and ending with Montcalm, its latest defender. It is a painfulbut a salutary spectacle to see to what meannesses a sovereignand a government may find themselves reduced through aweak complaisance towards the foreigner, in the feverishdesire of putting an end to a war frivolously undertaken andfeebly conducted. French power in India threw out more lustre but was des^tined to speedier and perhaps more melancholy extinctionthan in Canada. Single-handed in the East the chiefs main-. MARSHAL SAXE Francey vol. five. CH. Lin.] LOUIS XV., FRANCE IN TEE COLONIES. 97 tained the struggle against the incapacity of the French gov-ernment and the dexterous tenacity of the enemy; in Americathe population of French extraction upheld to the bitter endthe name, the honor and the flag .of their country. The fateof France, says Voltaire, has nearly always been that herenterprises and even her successes beyond her own frontiersshould become fatal to her. The defaults of the governmentand the jealous passions of the colonists themselves, in theeighteenth century, seriously aggravated the military reverseswhich were to cost the French nearly all their colonies, ft 06 Ql*^ More tha™ ^ VmnrliWl yPfl-ra prflvjmislv. at the Outset Of QjJ LomT Xl V. 7s personal reign and through the perseveringefforts of Colbert marching in the fuotsleps ol Cardinal Ricne- v^l/lieu, an India Company had been founded tor tne purpose of ^[Jdeveloping French commerce m tnose distant regions, whi
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