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Frontenac was notorious for giving whisky to the Iroqouis tribes in exchange for animal pelts. He encouraged people to become "Coureurs de bois" who chased beaver and were mostly nomads. This pissed off the Intendant and Bishop. They schemed to take him down. But Iroquois attacks redoubled and they sent Frontenac back to booze them up.

New France had been under constant fear of Iroquois attack during the 17th century. So in 1696, at the age of 76 years old, Frontenac led an invasion of the Iroquois country. The result was that the Iroquois would never again be a peril to the colony.

Frontenac had a short lived marriage to Anne de la Grange-Trianon whom he had one child with, Francois Louis.