René Gaultier de Varennes
René Gaultier de Varennes (
Trois-Rivières, Quebec and the father of Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye, a famous Canadian explorer and fur trader
. Part of the Ancien Régime, the Gaultier family of aristocrats came from the Anjou area of France.
René married the daughter of Pierre Boucher, the governor of Trois-Rivières in 1667 and part of the marriage contract contained a request to the governor of New France, Daniel de Rémy de Courcelle, that he should retain the office and the privileges of his father-in-law when Boucher retired. Boucher did retire in 1667 and René became governor.
He died in 1689 in the parish of l’Immaculée-Conception near Trois-Rivières.
External links
- Tessier, Albert (1979) [1966]. "Gaultier de Varennes, René". In Brown, George Williams (ed.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol. I (1000–1700) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
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