Louis de Buade de Frontenac

Louis de Buade de Frontenac

Louis de Buade, Comte de Frontenac et de Palluau (French pronunciation: [lwi də bɥad kɔ̃t də fʁɔ̃tənak e də palɥo]; 22 May 1622 – 28 November 1698) was a French soldier, courtier, and Governor General of New France in North America from 1672 to 1682, and again from 1689 to his death in 1698. He established a number of forts on the Great Lakes and engaged in a series of battles against the English and the Iroquois. In his first term, he supported the expansion of the fur trade, establishing Fort Frontenac (in what is now Kingston, Ontario) and came into conflict with the other members of the Sovereign Council over its expansion and over the corvée that were required to build the new forts. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Louis de Buade de Frontenac has received more than 279,625 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Louis de Buade de Frontenac is the 11,620th most popular politician (down from 10,879th in 2019), the 3,458th most popular biography from France (down from 3,274th in 2019) and the 747th most popular French Politician.