Si nous utilisons fréquemment les archives qu'ils nous ont laissées, nous connaissons mal cependant les notaires d'Ancien Régime. Cet essai vise à étudier l'un d'eux, Guillaume Barette, qui a pratiqué pendant trente-cinq ans dans la seigneurie de La Prairie, l'une des plus peuplées de la région montréalaise au XVIIIe siècle. Après l'avoir replacé dans son cadre spatial, nous avons reconstitué sa vie familiale et professionnelle et analysé sa fortune et son patrimoine. Nous avons finalement étudié le contenu de son greffe qui éclaire la pratique d'un notaire rural sous le Régime français.Although historians often use notarized contracts of the "Ancien-Régime", the notaries who drew them up are not well known. This essay is devoted to the study of one such notary, Guillaume Barette, who for thirty-five years practiced in the populous Montréal-area seigneury of La Prairie. After placing him in his spatial context, I have reconstituted his family and professional life and analyzed his fortune and inheritance. Finally, I have studied the acts that he produced, in order to shed light on the practices of a rural notary of the French regime
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