Louis de Buade de Frontenac
Louis de Buade, Comte de Frontenac et de Palluau (
1622-
1698) was a
French courtier and
Governor General of
New France from
1672 to
1682 and from
1689 to his death in
1698. He established a number of forts on the
Great Lakes and engaged in a series of battle against the
English and the
Iroquois.