The gallant, restless Louis Buade de Frontenac was
pictured there side by side with his fair countess, called by reason
of her surpassing loveliness "the divine;" Vaudreuil too, who spent
a long life of devotion to his country, and Beauharnais, who
nourished its young strength until it was able to resist not only
the powerful confederacy of the Five Nations but the still more
powerful league of New England and the other English Colonies.
There, also, were seen the sharp, intellectual face of Laval, its
first bishop, who organized the Church and education in the Colony;
and of Talon, wisest of intendants, who devoted himself to the
improvement of agriculture, the increase of trade, and the well-
being of all the King's subjects in New France. And one more
striking portrait was there, worthy to rank among the statesmen and
rulers of New France,--the pale, calm, intellectual features of Mere
Marie de l'Incarnation, the first superior of the Ursulines of
Quebec, who, in obedience to heavenly visions, as she believed, left
France to found schools for the children of the new colonists, and
who taught her own womanly graces to her own sex, who were destined
to become the future mothers of New France.
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