The Marquis de Vaudreuil may refer to:
- Philippe de Rigaud de Vaudreuil (1643 - 1702), governor of Montréal then of New France
- Pierre de Rigaud de Vaudreuil (1698 - 1778), last governor-general of New France
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“A multitude of little superfluous precautions engender here a population of deputies and sub-officials, each of whom acquits himself with an air of importance and a rigorous precision, which seemed to say, though everything is done with much silence, “Make way, I am one of the members of the grand machine of state.””
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