Georges-René Saveuse de Beaujeu, Comte de Beaujeu (June 4, 1810 – July 29, 1865) was a seigneur

Seigneurial system of New France

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 and political figure in Canada East

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.

He was born in Montreal

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 in 1810, the son of seigneur Jacques-Philippe Saveuse de Beaujeu

Jacques-Philippe Saveuse de Beaujeu

Jacques-Philippe Saveuse de Beaujeu was a seigneur and political figure in Lower Canada.He was baptized on May 5, 1772, the son of seigneur Louis Liénard de Beaujeu de Villemonde. In 1794, he was named Protonotary of the Court of King's Bench for Montreal district. In 1802, he married Catherine,...

 and Catherine Chaussegros de Léry, daughter of Gaspard-Joseph Chaussegros de Léry

Gaspard-Joseph Chaussegros de Léry

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. He studied at the Collège de Montréal

Collège de Montréal

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. After his father's death from cholera

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 in 1832, he inherited the fief of Nouvelle-Longueuil and the seigneury of Soulanges. Later that year, he married Adélaïde, the daughter of seigneur Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé

Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé

Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé was a French Canadian writer and seigneur.He was born at Quebec City in 1786, the son of seigneur Pierre-Ignace Aubert de Gaspé and Catherine Tarieu de Lanaudière, the daughter of seigneur Charles-François Tarieu de La Naudière. The Aubert de Gaspé family was...

. In 1848, he was appointed to the Legislative Council of the Province of Canada

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. He was elected to the same council for Rigaud division in 1858 and 1862 after it became an elected body. Saveuse de Beaujeu also served as lieutenant-colonel in the militia and was president of the Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste of Montreal. He helped found the Société Historique de Montréal in 1858.

He died at Coteau-du-Lac

Coteau-du-Lac, Quebec

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 in 1865.

His son Georges-Raoul-Léotale-Guichart-Humbert

Georges-Raoul-Léotale-Guichart-Humbert Saveuse de Beaujeu

Georges-Raoul-Léotalde-Guichard-Humbert Saveuse de Beaujeu was a Quebec seigneur and political figure. He represented Soulanges in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec from 1871 to 1878 and in the Canadian House of Commons as a Conservative member from 1882 to 1883.He was born at Coteau-du-Lac in...

later served in the Canadian House of Commons.