François Lévesque was a French

France

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-born merchant and political figure in Quebec. He served as a member of the Legislative and Executive Councils.

He was probably born in Rouen

Rouen

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, of Huguenot

Huguenot

The Huguenots were members of the Protestant Reformed Church of France during the 16th and 17th centuries. Since the 17th century, people who formerly would have been called Huguenots have instead simply been called French Protestants, a title suggested by their German co-religionists, the...

 descent, the son of François Lévesque and Marie Pouchet. Sometime before 1756, he joined his cousins François Havy

François Havy

François Havy was a French merchant who operated in Quebec. Havy managed the Quebec business of the French shipping firm Dugard et Cie. While the company's Quebec activities were modest when Havy first established the office in 1732, by 1741 he was handling a full fifth of the colony's imports...

 and Jean Lefebvre

Jean Lefebvre (merchant)

Jean Lefebvre was a French merchant in Quebec City. He came to Quebec City in 1732 to be the assistant of François Havy, at the trading company Dugard et Cie. Havy and LeFebvre formed a partnership and two became highly successful merchants in their own right...

 who were operating as merchants in Quebec City

Quebec City

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. Both of his cousins left during the Seven Years War. Lévesque established a prosperous business in the wheat trade. In 1769, he married Catherine Trottier Desauniers Beaubien. In the same year, he became a justice of the peace

Justice of the Peace

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. In 1772, he became a member of the Council and, in 1775, a member of the Legislative Council

Council for the Affairs of the Province of Quebec

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 for the Province of Quebec. Lévesque died in Quebec City at the age of 54.