Excerpt from Le Chevalier de Mornac: Chronique de la Nouvelle-France, (1664)Mazarin étant mort l'année suivante, Louis 'xiv avait pris aussitôt le sceptre d'une main ferme, bien décidé de régner par lui-même et de maintenir la tranquillité intérieure, ainsi que d'augmenter la prospérité du royaume.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.