Jacques-René de Brisay, Marquis de Denonville (1637-1710)

Jacques-René de Brisay, Marquis de Denonville, served as governor of New France from 1685 to 1689. With English support, the Iroquois sought to divert the fur trade from Montreal toward Albany, in the British colony of New York. Denonville, a military officer by training, launched attacks against the Iroquois Nation, had a wooden palisade erected to fortify Montreal and succeeded in negotiating a short-lived peace treaty.