13.15, Place Royale, 19-21, rue Saint-Pierre Fleury Joseph
of Gorgendière bought a timbered house built about 1687. As it fell into ruin, he had it destroyed and replaced by a stone house in 1722. The Quebec government became the owner in 1966 and was restored in 1991.
From Gorgendière was officer of the Company of the West Indies. Subsequently, he created a network of import-export business with France and the Caribbean. It was exporting oil seal and imported fabrics. He received the lordship Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce in 1736 with the task of building a road along Chaudiere River from the St. Lawrence. He built a flour mill and a chapel on his lordship. He died in 1755.
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