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Jean François Gaultier (6 October 1708 in La Croix-Avranchin – 10 July 1756 in Quebec) was a French physician and botanist. He was the king's physician for New France and was the regular physician at the Hôtel-Dieu de Québec. Gaultier, being one of the leading naturalists in Canada, supported Swedish botanist Pehr Kalm in his 1749 exploring voyage of Quebec.

Jean-François Gaultier married Madeleine-Marie-Anne on 12 March 1752.

References

1. Neil Stevens Forkey (1 January 2012). Canadians and the Natural Environment to the Twenty-first Century. University of Toronto Press. pp. 18–19. ISBN 978-0-8020-4896-7.
2. ^ Boivin, Bernard. "Jean François Gaultier". Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol. 3. Retrieved 2020-04-23.

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