The foregoing is drawn from a comparison of the following authorities,
all of which will be found in the Bibliotheque Nationale of Paris,
where the examination was made: _Memoires de Marolles, abbe de
Villeloin_, II. 201; L'Hermite-Souliers, _Histoire Genealogique de la
Noblesse de Touraine_; Du Chesne, _Recherches Historiques de l'Ordre
du Saint-Esprit_; Morin, _Statuts de l'Ordre du Saint-Esprit_;
Marolles de Villeloin, _Histoire des Anciens Comtes d'Anjou_; Pere
Anselme, _Grands Officiers de la Couronne_; Pinard, _Chronologie
Historique-militaire; Table de la Gazette de France_. In this matter
of the Frontenac genealogy, I am much indebted to the kind offices of
my friend, James Gordon Clarke, Esq. When, in 1600, Henry IV. was
betrothed to Marie de Medicis, Frontenac, grandfather of the governor
of Canada, described as "ung des plus antiens serviteurs du roy," was
sent to Florence by the king to carry his portrait to his affianced
bride. _Memoires de Philippe Hurault_, 448 (Petitot).
The appointment of Frontenac to the post, esteemed as highly
honorable, of _maitre d'hotel_ in the royal household, immediately
followed. There is a very curious book, the journal of Jean Heroard, a
physician charged with the care of the infant Dauphin, afterwards
Louis XIII.
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