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    Pierre de Rigaud de Vaudreuil de Cavagnial, marquis de Vaudreuil (22 November 1698 – 4 August 1778) was a Canadian-born colonial governor of French Canada...
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    Philippe de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil (French pronunciation: [filip də ʁigo maʁki də vodʁœj]; c. 1643 – 10 October 1725) was a French military officer...
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    François-Pierre de Rigaud de Vaudreuil (February 8, 1703 – August 24, 1779) was a soldier, fur trader, seigneur and administrator in New France. He served...
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  • Marquis de Vaudreuil may refer to: Philippe de Rigaud de Vaudreuil (1643–1702), governor of Montréal then of New France Pierre de Rigaud de Vaudreuil (1698–1778)...
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    Joseph Hyacinthe François de Paule de Rigaud, comte de Vaudreuil (born March 2, 1740–1817) was a Saint Dominican nobleman at the court of King Louis XVI...
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    Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce go back to the days of New France, when the seigneury of Saint-Joseph was granted to Pierre Rigaud de Vaudreuil in 1736. However...
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    River,in 1615. The Seigneury of Rigaud was granted in 1732 to the brothers Pierre and François-Pierre de Rigaud de Vaudreuil, governors in New France, and...
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    Louis-Philippe de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil (18 April 1724 – 14 December 1802) was second in command of the French squadron off America during the...
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    Carillon, presently known as Fort Ticonderoga, was constructed by Pierre de Rigaud de Vaudreuil, Governor of New France, to protect Lake Champlain from a British...
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    France Louis-Hector de Callière gave a seigneury to Philippe de Vaudreuil, who was governor of Montreal at the time. Rigaud de Vaudreuil later became governor...
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    between himself and the Governor General of the colony, Pierre de Rigaud, marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnial. These men were the leaders of the war effort...
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    division of the area into two counties: Vaudreuil County -- (named after Pierre François de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnal, governor of New France) for...
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  • Lieutenant General Pierre de Rigaud de Vaudreuil de Cavagnal abandoned the Beauport shore and marched west in order to rendezvous with him. Vaudreuil sent word...
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  • de Beauharnois de la Boische and Intendant Gilles Hocquart, "Beauce" was chosen by seigneurs Joseph de Fleury de La Gorgendière, Pierre de Rigaud de Vaudreuil...
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    Rigaud, Quebec. The river was named after Pierre François de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnal, the last governor of New France. List of rivers of...
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  • British North America Act, 1867 as Vaudreuil. It initially consisted of Isle Perrot, the Seigniories of Vaudreuil and Rigaud, and the first, second, third...
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    Louisiana, serving from 1753 to 1763. The former governor, Pierre François de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnal, was promoted to the post of Governor of New...
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  • Haute-Normandie United States Vaudreuil, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community Pierre François de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnal (1698–1778), a Canadian...
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    Guard, Joseph Hyacinthe François de Paule de Rigaud, Comte de Vaudreuil, although many of her friends considered Vaudreuil too domineering and too uncouth...
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  • de Rigaud Vaudreuil, Governor General of New France, and the uncle of the last Governor General of New France, Pierre François de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnal...
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  • revolutionary Clément Rigaud (b.1984), French football player Émile Rigaud (1824-1890), French lawyer and politician François-Pierre Rigaud de Vaudreuil (1703-1779)...
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    Canada. The last French governor-general of New France, Pierre François de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnal, surrendered to British Major General Jeffery...
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    Michel-Alain Chartier de Lotbinière, 1st Marquis de Lotbinière (1723–1798), Seigneur of Vaudreuil, Lotbinière and Rigaud, Quebec etc. In 1757, on his advice...
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  • Moyne de Bienville in an action against the Chickasaws in 1739. He held an important post as adjutant with François-Pierre de Rigaud de Vaudreuil in 1747...
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    and natives stationed in Montreal had gotten so great that Pierre de Rigaud de Vaudreuil the Governor of New France realized they needed to take action...
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  • Louise Élisabeth de Joybert (August 18, 1673 – January 1740) was a French marchioness, married to marquis Philippe de Rigaud Vaudreuil, governor of New...
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  • and on May 12, 1722 they formally petitioned Governor Philippe de Rigaud Vaudreuil and Intendant Michel Bégon to that effect. There were other grievances...
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    Philippe de Rigaud de Vaudreuil as governor of Montreal. Ramezay was also the acting governor of New France from 1714 to 1716 while governor Philippe de Rigaud...
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    members of this society: Pierre Victor, Baron de Besenval de Brunstatt, Joseph Hyacinthe François de Paule de Rigaud, Comte de Vaudreuil, and Jean-Balthazar...
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    Canadian Museum of History Guy Frégault, Le Grand Marquis: Pierre de Rigaud de Vaudreuil et la Louisiane (Montreal, 1952), pp. 129–130 Edmunds, R. David...
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