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PEUVRET DE GAUDARVILLE, ALEXANDRE, counsellor, king’s secretary, chief clerk of the Conseil Souverain, son of Jean-Baptiste Peuvret* Demesnu, first chief clerk of the Conseil Souverain, and of Catherine Nau; baptized 6 Oct. 1664 at Quebec; buried there 30 Dec. 1702.

Following in his father’s footsteps, he occupied at an early age the office of secretary. In 1682 he became deputy secretary to Intendant de Meulles. In 1686, after de Meulles’ departure, he worked with his father at the registry of the Conseil Souverain. At the request of Frontenac [Buade*] and Champigny [Bochart], he received on 1 March 1693 the letters according him “reversion of the office of king’s counsellor and secretary, and of chief clerk of the Conseil Souverain of Quebec.” He held this appointment until his death.

In 1695 he adopted the name of Gaudarville, when he inherited this seigneury; he also secured title from Frontenac, in 1693, to a fief which he had named Fossambault, after his maternal grandfather Jacques Nau de La Boissière et de Fossambault. In 1696 he married Geneviève Bouteville, who died in September 1699 at the age of 17. On 12 Jan. 1700, he married Marie-Anne Gaultier, daughter of Philippe Gaultier* de Comporté, who bore him two children: Marie-Anne and Alexandre-Joseph.

In December 1702 he was carried off by the epidemic of smallpox that ravaged Quebec at that time.

Robert Lahaise

Jug. et délib., I, 993; III, 517f., 988. Recensement du Canada, 1666 (APQ Rapport). P.-G. Roy, Inv. concessions, I, 13; IV, 71f.; Inv. ins. Cons. souv., 93. Gareau, “La prévôté de Québec,” 51–146. P.-G. Roy, “Les conseillers au Conseil souverain de la Nouvelle-France,” RSCT, 3d ser., IX (1915), sect.i, 173–87; “Les secrétaires des gouverneurs et intendants de la Nouvelle-France,” BRH, XLI (1935), 95. Tanguay, Dictionnaire, VI, 337f. J.-E. Roy, Histoire du notariat, I, 48. P.-G. Roy, La ville de Québec, I, 293; II, 18. N.-E. Dionne, “Les caveaux de la basilique Notre-Dame de Québec,” BRH, IV (1898), 112. P.-G. Roy, “M. Nau de Fossambault et la Nouvelle-France,” BRH, XXI (1915), 288; “La seigneurie de Gaudarville,” BRH, IX (1903), 246–49.

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Robert Lahaise, “PEUVRET DE GAUDARVILLE, ALEXANDRE,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 2, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed March 19, 2024, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/peuvret_de_gaudarville_alexandre_2E.html.

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Permalink:   http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/peuvret_de_gaudarville_alexandre_2E.html
Author of Article:   Robert Lahaise
Title of Article:   PEUVRET DE GAUDARVILLE, ALEXANDRE
Publication Name:   Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 2
Publisher:   University of Toronto/Université Laval
Year of publication:   1969
Year of revision:   1982
Access Date:   March 19, 2024