# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pierre-dugua-sieur-de-mons
# Generated: 2026-08-15T14:09:16.904Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/pierre-dugua-sieur-de-mons"
name: "Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Mons"
slug: "pierre-dugua-sieur-de-mons"
description: "Pierre Dugua de Mons was a French merchant, explorer and colonizer. A Calvinist, he was born in the Château de Mons, in Royan, Saintonge and founded the first permanent French settlement in Canada. He was Lieutenant General of New France from 1603 to 1610. He travelled to northeastern North America for the first time in 1599 with Pierre de Chauvin de Tonnetuit."
tagline: "French merchant and explorer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Pierre_Dugua%2C_Sieur_de_Mons.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Historical Figures"
  slug: "historical-figures"
profileType:
  name: "Historical Figure"
  slug: "historical-figure"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2798645"
birthDate: "1558"
deathDate: "1628-02-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.24
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.055692
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "П'єр Дюґуа"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Dugua_de_Mons"
    title: "Pierre Dugua de Mons"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Dugua_de_Mons"
    title: "Pierre Dugua de Mons"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Dugua%2C_Sieur_de_Mons"
    title: "Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Mons"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Dugua_de_Mons"
    title: "Pierre Dugua de Mons"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Dugua_de_Mons"
    title: "Pierre Dugua de Mons"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Dugua_de_Mons"
    title: "Pierre Dugua de Mons"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Dugua"
    title: "Pierre Dugua"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_du_Gua_de_Mons"
    title: "Pierre du Gua de Mons"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D1%8E%D0%B3%D1%83%D0%B0%2C_%D0%9F%D1%8C%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Дюгуа, Пьер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Dugua%2C_Sieur_de_Mons"
    title: "Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Mons"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1534846"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump