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1667-1672. FRANCE TAKES POSSESSION OF THE WEST. Talon.--Saint-Lusson.--Perrot.--The Ceremony at Saut Ste. Marie.--The Speech of Allouez.--Count Frontenac. Jean Talon, intendant of Canada, was full of projects for the good of the colony. On the one hand, he set himself to the development of its industries, and, on the other, to the extension of its domain. He meant to occupy the interior of the continent, control the rivers, which were its only highways, and hold it for France against every other nation. O…