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In essential respects his qualities lie upon
own words or those of men who knew him well. Were we
style him, in one column, brave, steadfast, daring,
the other, prodigal, boastful, haughty, unfair in argument,
not very helpful. We can form a much better idea of
adjectives at him.
As an administrator he appears to least advantage during
his energies were directed against adversaries within
time, his feud with Laval, Duchesneau, and the Jesuits
occupies at present. For in the absence of great deeds
thought the essentials rather than the accidents of his
much to say on behalf of Frontenac's motives, if not of
career broadly it must be held that, at best, he lost a
prepossessions which sprang in part from his own love of
France. He might not like the Jesuits, but they were a
have provoked his admiration. In any case, it was his
the whole administration by brawling. As to Duchesneau,
excused some of the petulance which the intendant's
position to make illicit profits from the fur trade.
be harsh to accuse him of venality or peculation on the
probability that the king appointed him in the expectation
outside his salary. Public opinion varies from age to
servant in such matters. Under a democratic regime the
for the most part, under autocracies in past.
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