Michel Leneuf du Hérisson

Michel Leneuf du Hérisson (ca. 1601, Caen – October 1672, Trois-Rivières) was a French-born administrator, nobleman, and businessman in the colony of Canada in the 17th century. In 1636, he and his family, which included his younger brother Jacques Leneuf, left Normandy and were the first of the French nobility to settle in the colony of New France, alongside their in-laws the Legardeurs.

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