Valère Guillet was a notary and political figure in Quebec

Quebec

Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....

. He represented Saint-Maurice

Saint-Maurice (Lower Canada)

Under the Constitutional Act of 1791, the district of Saint-Maurice was established. Its boundaries, which roughly covered the current Mauricie area except for the city of Trois-Rivières, were reduced when the district of Champlain was created in 1829...

 in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada

Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada

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 from 1830 to 1836 as a supporter of the Parti patriote.

He was born in Batiscan, Quebec

Batiscan, Quebec

Batiscan is a municipality in the Mauricie region of the province of Quebec in Canada. It is located along the Saint Lawrence River at the mouth of the Batiscan River.-History:...

, the son of Jean-Baptiste Guillet and Marguerite Langlois. He was educated at the Séminaire de Nicolet, studied law with his brother Louis

Louis Guillet

Louis Guillet was a Quebec notary and political figure.He was born in Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan in 1788, apprenticed as a notary at Pointe-aux-Trembles and was admitted to the profession in 1809. He was named a justice of the peace in 1830...

 and was admitted to practice as a notary in 1825. Guillet practiced in Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets

Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets, Quebec

Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets is a municipality in the Centre-du-Québec region of the province of Quebec in Canada....

, Yamachiche

Yamachiche, Quebec

Yamachiche is a municipality in the Mauricie region of the province of Quebec in Canada.-Etymology:The name Yamachiche was first used to identify the Little Yamachiche River which runs through the town. It came from the Native American words iyamitaw and achichki...

 and Trois-Rivières

Trois-Rivières, Quebec

Trois-Rivières is a city in the Mauricie region of Quebec, Canada, located at the confluence of the Saint-Maurice and Saint Lawrence Rivers. It is situated in the Mauricie administrative region, on the north shore of the Saint Lawrence River across from the city of Bécancour...

. He supported the Ninety-Two Resolutions

Ninety-Two Resolutions

The Ninety-Two Resolutions were drafted by Louis-Joseph Papineau and other members of the Parti patriote of Lower Canada in 1834. The resolutions were a long series of demands for political reforms in the British-governed colony....

. Guillet was coroner for Trois-Rivières district from 1836 to 1878. From 1847 to 1862, he was secretary for the Chambre des notaires for Trois-Rivières and Saint-François districts; Guillet was president from 1862 to 1868. He died at Trois-Rivières at the age of 84.

His sister Marie married Alexis Rivard

Alexis Rivard

Alexis Rivard was a trader and political figure in Lower Canada. He represented Rimouski in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1832 to 1834....

, another member of the legislative assembly.