 Re-appointed governor in 1662, a position he held until his resignation in 1667.His "L'histoire veritable et naturelle des moeurs et productions du pays de la Nouvelle-France, vulgairement dite le Canada", a description of the flora, fauna and native societies in the region (and a significant, pioneering documentation of North American natural history) was published in Paris in 1664.He was succeeded in the governorship by his son-in-law, René Gaultier de Varennes.