Philippe de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil (French pronunciation: [filip də ʁigo maʁki də vodʁœj]; c. 1643 – 10 October 1725) was a French military officer who served as Governor General of New France (now Canada and U.S. states of the Mississippi Valley) from 1703 to 1725, throughout Queen Anne's War and Father Rale's War.
They lived at Château Vaudreuil, which was built in 1723 by Chaussegros de Léry, but was eventually destroyed by a fire in 1803.
His grandson Louis-Philippe de Vaudreuil defeated a British naval force at the Battle of the Chesapeake 1781 on the Sceptre, and was protecting George Washington's army in 1782 in Boston aboard the Triomphant.
Rigaud de Vaudreuil was one of three governors-general of Canada known to have owned enslaved people.
A Squadron of cadets at the Royal Military College Saint-Jean was named in his honour.