Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Francis Parkman
- First Published: 1877
- Type of Work: History
- Time of Work: 1620-1701
- Setting: Canada
- Principal Characters: Louis de Buade, Count Frontenac, Anna de la Grange Trianon, Countess Frontenac, Le Febvre de la Barre, Jacques Brisay, Marquis de Denouville, Francis Xavier de Laval-Montmorency, Bishop Saint-Vallier, Sir Edmund Andros, Sir William Phips, Baron de Saint-Castin, Father Pierre Thury, Otreovati (Big Mouth)
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: History, France or French people, War, Historians, Seventeenth century, Canada or Canadians, Catholics or Catholic Church, Nobility
- Locales: Canada
Francis Parkman is one of the trio of great nineteenth century American historians, the other two being William Hickling Prescott and John Lothrop Motley. Of the three Parkman has stood best the test of time. His superiority lies in his approach. He is less rhetorical and florid in style, less likely to draw sweeping philosophical conclusions from his evidence, and more successful than his contemporaries in evoking history and making it live.
Born a sensitive, sickly son of a Boston Brahmin family, he nurtured extreme hatred for physical weakness. While still a student at Harvard...
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