que l'on aye rien appris de tout cela, sur quoi néanmoins il est bon que l'on agisse et que l'on me donne tous les advis qui seront nécessaires."
19
Discovery of the Great West, chap. vi.
20
Frontenac au Ministre, 2 Nov., 1672.
21
Mémoire des Motifs qui ont obligé M. le Comte de Frontenac de faire arrêter le Sieur Perrot.
22
Mémoire des Motifs, etc.
23
Édits et Ordonnances, I. 73.
24
Information faite par nous, Charles le Tardieu, Sieur de Tilly. Tilly was a commissioner sent by the council to inquire into the affair.
25
Mémoire de M. d'Urfé à Colbert, extracts in Faillon.
26
All the proceedings in the affair of Perrot will be found in full in the Registre des Jugements et Déliberations du Conseil Supérieur. They extend from the end of January to the beginning of November, 1674.
27
Conteste entre le Gouverneur et l'Abbé de Fénelon; Jugements et Déliberations du Conseil Supérieur, 21 Août, 1674.
28
Frontenac au Ministre, 14 Nov., 1674. In a preceding letter, sent by way of Boston, and dated 16 February, he says that he could not suffer Perrot to go unpunished without injury to the regal authority, which he is resolved to defend to the last drop of his blood.
29
Le Roi à Frontenac, 22 Avril, 1675.
30
Colbert à Frontenac, 13 Mai, 1675.
31
Lettre de Bretonvilliers, 7 Mai, 1675; extract in Faillon. Fénelon, though wanting in prudence and dignity, had been an ardent and devoted missionary. In relation to these disputes, I have received much aid from the research of Abbé Faillon, and from the valuable paper of Abbé Verreau, Les deux Abbés de Fénelon, printed in the Canadian Journal de l'Instruction Publique, Vol. VIII.
32
Édits et Ordonnances, I. 84.
33
The Old Régime in Canada.
34
Colbert à Duchesneau, 1 Mai, 1677.
35
Ibid., 18 Mai, 1677.
36
Le Roy à Frontenac, 25 Avril, 1679.
37
Colbert à Duchesneau, 8 Mai, 1679
38
Frontenac au Ministre, 14 Nov., 1674
39
Declaration du Roy, 23 Sept., 1675.
40
"Présider au Conseil Souverain en l'absence du dit Sieur de Frontenac."—Commission de Duchesneau, 5 Juin, 1675.
41
This letter, still preserved in the Archives de la Marine, is dated 12 Mai, 1678. Several other letters of Louis XIV. give Frontenac the same designation.
42
Le Roy à Frontenac, 29 Avril, 1680. A decree of the council of state soon after determined the question of presidency in accord with this letter. Édits et Ordonnances, I. 238.
43
Colbert à Frontenac, 4 Dec., 1679. This letter seems to have been sent by a special messenger by way of New England. It was too late in the season to send directly to Canada. On the quarrel about the presidency, Duchesneau au Ministre, 10 Nov., 1679; Auteuil au Ministre, 10 Aug., 1679; Contestations entre le Sieur Comte de Frontenac et M. Duchesneau, Chevalier. This last paper consists of voluminous extracts from the records of the council.
44
Registre du Conseil Supérieur, 16 Aoûst, 1681.
45
Registre du Conseil Supérieur, 4 Nov., 1681.
46
Registre de Conseil Supérieur, 1681.
47
Colbert à Duchesneau, 15 Mai, 1678.
48
Le Roy à Frontenac, 12 Mai, 1678.
49
Colbert à Duchesneau, 25 Avril, 1679.
50
Duchesneau au Ministre, 10 Nov., 1679.
51
Le Roy à Frontenac, 29 Avril, 1680.
52
Frontenac au Maréchal de Bellefonds, 14 Nov., 1680.
53
Mémoire et Preuves du Désordre des Coureurs de Bois.
54
Frontenac au Roy, 2 Nov., 1681.
55
Duchesneau au Ministre, 13 Nov., 1681.
56
Frontenac au Ministre, 2 Nov., 1681.
57
Mémoire de l'Evesque de Quebec, Mars, 1681 (printed in Revue Canadienne, 1873). The bishop is silent about the barricades of which Frontenac and his friends complain in several letters.
58
See, among other instances, the Défense de M. de Frontenac par un de ses Amis, published by Abbé Verreau in the Revue Canadienne, 1873.
59
Plumitif du Conseil Souverain, 1681.
60
Conduite du Sieur Perrot, Gouverneur de Montréal en la Nouvelle France, 1681; Plainte du Sieur Bouthier, 10 Oct., 1680; Procès-verbal des huissiers de Montréal.
61
Conduite du Sieur Perrot. La Barre, Frontenac's successor, declares that the charges against Perrot were false, including the attestations of Migeon and his friends; that Dollier de Casson had been imposed upon, and that various persons had been induced to sign unfounded statements without reading them. La Barre au Ministre, 4 Nov., 1683.
62
Le Roy à Frontenac, 30 Avril, 1681.
63
La Barre says that Duchesneau was far more to blame than Frontenac. La Barre au Ministre, 1683. This testimony has weight, since Frontenac's friends were La Barre's enemies.
64
Registre du Conseil-Supérieur, 16 Fév., 1682.
65
Frontenac, Mémoire adressé à Colbert, 1677. This remarkable paper will be found in the Découvertes et Établissements des Français dans l'Amérique Septentrionale; Mémoires et Documents Originaux, edited by M. Margry. The paper is very long, and contains references to attestations and other proofs which accompanied it, especially in regard to the trade of the Jesuits.
