François-Marie Renaud d'Avesne des Méloizes

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• Location info: Bourgogne, France (birth), Québec (marriage,death)
• Pionnier de la Nouvelle-France. Capitaine de la companie de Méloizes. Arrive à Québec en août 1685. In 1687, he accompanied Jacques-René de Brisay de Denonville, Marquis de Denonville, on his expedition against the Senecas, and signed the document recording the taking of their country. Louis de Buade de Frontenac held him in high esteem, considering him to be "one of the best and wisest officers" in Canada.
• Seigneur de la Cloutièrerie (1687-1693).
• Renaud d’Avène des Méloizes died 22 April 1699 at Quebec and was buried in the vaults of the Notre-Dame Basilica-Cathedral.