Michel Bégon (25 December 1638 – 14 March 1710) was a French colonial official and naturalist. He was intendant de la marine at the port of Rochefort and...

Begon or Bégon may refer to: Bégon of Nîmes [fr], bishop of Nîmes 943-946 Michel Bégon (1638–1710), French naturalist and administrator after whom begonias...

a French patron of botany, and adopted by Linnaeus in 1753, to honor Michel Bégon, a former governor of the French colony of Saint-Domingue (now Haiti)...

Canada. Bégons was born into a French family with a history of service to the King of France in fiscal and judicial matters. His father, Michel V Bégon, was...

Americas, Jean-Baptiste Patoulet [fr], as well as those of his successor Michel Bégon. Legal historians have debated whether other sources, such as Roman slavery...

Trois-Rivières. Claude-Michel was the brother of Michel Bégon de la Picardière and they came to Canada together in 1713. Their father was Michel V Bégon who was intendant...

New France between 1748 and 1749, when Bégon left Canada and settled in Rochefort. She continued to write to Michel from France, and her last known letters...

England. Didier de La Cour (1550–1623), French Benedictine monk Claude-Michel Bégon de la Cour (1683–1748), French colonial military officer Charles-Joseph...

Galissonière had family connections to New France as his mother was a sister of Michel Bégon, the intendant from 1712 to 1726. He also married Marie-Catherine-Antoinette...

as justice, police, and financial management. His successor in 1688, Michel Bégon, had more limited functions in the port of Rochefort, possibly due to...