Louis de Buade de Frontenac
Louis de Buade, Comte de Frontenac et de Palluau ([[1620]-1698) was a French courtier and Governor of New France from 1672 to 1682 and from 1689 to his death in 1698. He established a number of forts on the Great Lakes and engaged in a series of battle against the English and the Iroquois.
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.