The Fighting Governor : A Chronicle of Frontenac: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Fighting Governor : A Chronicle of Frontenac, credited to Charles William Colby, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

The Canada to which Frontenac came in 1672 was no longer the infant colony it had been when Richelieu founded the Company of One Hundred Associates. Though its inhabitants numbered less than seven thousand, the institutions under which they lived could not have been more elaborate or precise. In short, the divine right of the king to rule over his people was proclaimed as loudly in the colony as in the motherland. This book follows Frontenac through his life as a public officer in Canada. Summary from book

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Fighting Governor : A Chronicle of Frontenac
• Author credits: Charles William Colby
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 8
• Listed recording duration: 3:24:14

Catalogue topics

• history
• Canada

Track guide

1. 1 - Canada in 1672 — 17:40
2. 2 - Louis de Buade, Comte de Frontenac — 24:33
3. 3 - Frontenac's First Years in Canada — 21:40
4. 4 - Governor, Bishop, and Intendant — 22:50
5. 5 - Frontenac's Public Policy — 21:41
6. 6 - The Lurid Interval — 29:42
7. 7 - The Great Struggle — 31:17
8. 8 - Frontenac's Last Days — 34:55

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