Military engineer and mapmaker
Gaspard-Joseph Chaussegros de Lery
Louis XV’s chief engineer in New France, who planned the walls of Quebec.
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The life
1682–1756Born Toulon, France
Gaspard-Joseph Chaussegros de Léry was baptised in Toulon, trained as a military engineer and fought in the War of the Spanish Succession before he was sent to Quebec in 1716 to plan its defences. He was chief engineer of New France from 1719 until his death, designing fortifications, churches and public buildings, and Canada now honours him as a person of national historic importance. Our card The Citadel, Quebec has his 1727 plan of the city inside.