Pierre-Louis Panet

Pierre-Louis Panet (August 1, 1761 – December 2, 1812) was a Canadian lawyer, notary, seigneur, judge and political figure in Lower Canada.

In 1783, he was named French language clerk for the Court of Common Pleas in Quebec district.

He sold his property at Argenteuil in 1800 and bought the seigneuries of Ailleboust and Ramezay.

His daughter Charlotte-Mélanie Panet (1794–1872) and her husband, Marc-Antoine-Louis Lévesque (1782–1833), were instrumental in the formation of Sainte-Mélanie, a town within the Ailleboust Seignory.

[3] His daughter married Upper and Lower Canada politician William Bent Berczy.

Pierre-Louis Panet, 1812, painted post-mortem by the subject's son-in-law, William Bent Berczy .