Jean François Gaultier (6 October 1708 in

La Croix-Avranchin La Croix-Avranchin () is a former commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the commune Saint-James.Quebec Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirtee ...

) was a French physician and botanist. He was the king's physician for

New France New France (french: Nouvelle-France) was the area colonized by France in North America, beginning with the exploration of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence by Jacques Cartier in 1534 and ending with the cession of New France to Great Britain and Spai ...

and was the regular physician at the

Hôtel-Dieu de Québec The Hotel-Dieu de Québec is a teaching hospital located in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, and affiliated with Université Laval's medical school. It is part of the Centre hospitalier universitaire de Québec (CHUQ), a network of five teaching hosp ...

. Gaultier, being one of the leading naturalists in Canada, supported Swedish botanist

Pehr Kalm Pehr Kalm (6 March 1716 – 16 November 1779), also known as Peter Kalm, was a Swedish explorer, botanist, naturalist, and agricultural economist. He was one of the most important apostles of Carl Linnaeus. In 1747, he was commissioned by the ...

in his 1749 exploring voyage of Quebec. Jean-François Gaultier married to Madeleine-Marie-Anne on 12 March 1752.

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18th-century French botanists People from Manche 1708 births 1756 deaths 18th-century French physicians People of New France {{France-botanist-stub