CANADA -1972- 300th Anniversary of Frontenac's Appointment to New France 😀 #561

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This is for a MNH
1972
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😎😍 CANADA 😀😉
300th Anniversary of
Frontenac's Appointment to New France.
MNH Stamp - Scott #561
Frontenac was born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, the son of Henri de Buade,
colonel in the regiment of Navarre, and Anne Phélypeaux, daughter of Raymond Phélypeaux.
The details of his early life are meager, as no trace of the Frontenac papers have been discovered.
The de Buades, however, were a family of distinction in the principality of Bearn.
CANADA will Commemorate the 300th anniversary of the appointment of Louis de Buade, Compte de Frontenac et de Palluau, as Governor of Louis XIV's New France, the French colony in America.
Born May 22, 1622—the stamp could also be a 350th birth year commemorative—in Frontenac, of a noble military family, he served in the French army for 30 years (1639–69) and had attained a rank equivalent to that of a brigadier general.
The Duc de Saint—Simon, another French soldier, states‐man and writer, high in royal favor, in his Memoirs of the Louis XIV court found Frontenac a man “of keen mind, and high social position,” also reporting that he was “absolutely penniless.” It may be assumed that Count Fronteuse welcomed his appointment to New France as a means of replenishing his purse.
Frontenac served Louis XIV twice in French America, first from September, 1672, to September, 1682. He was recalled by the “Sun King” because of a political storm brewing over Frontenac's moves to squeeze merchants out of the profitable fur trade that he had entered.