- Michel Bégon (1667-1747)
Michel Bégon de la Picardière (
21 March 1667 –18 January 1747 ) was from a French family with a history of service to the King of France in fiscal and judicial matters. His fatherMichel Bégon (1638-1710) was first cousin to the wife ofJean-Baptiste Colbert and this moved the family into the occupations of maritime and colonial administrators.On 16 November 1718, against his family's advice, he dared to marry Marie-Elisabeth Rocbert (27 July 1696 – 1 November 1755), the daughter of the garde magasin of
Montréal and ironically nicknamed "l’Iroquoise" by her in-laws. He then served as theintendant of New France from 1712-1726 (being replaced byClaude-Thomas Dupuy ), as major de Québec (1726), king's lieutenant as governor ofMontréal (1733), then governor ofTrois-Rivières (1743). On her husband's death, Marie-Elisabeth Rocbert returned to Montréal before finally settling in Rochefort (1749), renting her house in Montréal to the intendantFrançois Bigot , who made it the centre of his administration of the city.External links
* [http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=1235 Biography at "the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online"]
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