The magazine of American history with notes and queries . mpadour. Of this lady at thetime of the declaration of war the author says: Making and unmaking cabinets, formulat-ing and dissevering political connections, nom-inating and dismissing commanders-in-chief atwill, the marquise was recognized as the leadingpower at the Court of France, her ambition andpride being alone satisfied when addressed bythe Courts of Austria and Spain as Ma chereCousine. For Canada she entertained the sen-timents of Voltaire, which were equivalent to apractical abandonment of a colony which theywere pleased to ch
The magazine of American history with notes and queries . mpadour. Of this lady at thetime of the declaration of war the author says: Making and unmaking cabinets, formulat-ing and dissevering political connections, nom-inating and dismissing commanders-in-chief atwill, the marquise was recognized as the leadingpower at the Court of France, her ambition andpride being alone satisfied when addressed bythe Courts of Austria and Spain as Ma chereCousine. For Canada she entertained the sen-timents of Voltaire, which were equivalent to apractical abandonment of a colony which theywere pleased to characterize as an ice-floe fromthe Northern Pole, a country unworthy the sac-rifices France had already made for it. Anautograph letter of Wolfe appears in facsimile,and there are excellent sketches of both Mont-real and Quebec at the period under Hart thinks there was no necessity for thesurrender or fall of Quebec consequent uponMontcalms defeat. He says, It was prema-ture, and the result of military incapacity of DeVaudreuil and De
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