French Musketeer and Governor General of Canada. This long-time Governor of New France (1703-1725)consolidated French power in the Great Lakes region and along the upper Mississippi. A son of his, Pierre de Rigaud de Vaudreuil became the first Canadian-born (and last French) Governor of Canada, while another actively participated in the French and Indian Indian War, François-Pierre de Rigaud de Vaudreuil.

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[Source: Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Volume II (1701-1740, University of Toronto Press, 1969.Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Volume II (1701-1740, University of Toronto Press, 1969.]