François-Gabriel D'Angeac

François-Gabriel d'Angeac (variants: Dangeac, Danjaique, Don Jacque) (1708 – 9 March 1782), Knight of Saint-Louis, was an officer in the French colonial regular troops and the first French governor of Saint Pierre and Miquelon.

Early life D'Angeac was born in the French colony of Plaisance (present-day Placentia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada). He was the son of Gabriel d’Angeac (born Saintonge; died 1737, Île Royale, now Cape Breton Island), a military man stationed at the time with Joseph de St. Ovide, Monbeton de Brouillan's company in Plaisance. His mother was Marguerite Bertrand. In 1714, his father and the garrison were reassigned to Louisbourg where, five years later, France began construction of a fortified town.

At the age of eight, d'Angeac began his military career as a guard at Port-Dauphin, Nova Scotia (now Englishtown) on Île Royale. In 1723, d'Angeac was given the rank of second ensign and assigned to his father's company at Louisbourg. D'Angeac sustained a chest wound during the 1758 siege of Louisbourg. However, D'Angeac organized thousands of Acadians and Indians and bolstered French defenses. Though there was ultimately an order to surrender, D’Angeac was defiant, until finally agreeing to terms. D'Angeac served as governor from 15 June 1763 to 31 July 1773. His relations with Newfoundland's governor, Hugh Palliser, were strained; Palliser's letters were considered rude. D'Angeac requested permission to retire in 1765; it was denied. He was promoted to Brigadier des armées of the line infantry in 1770. Two years later, he left the island of Saint-Pierre for France. With his recommendation, he was succeeded by his nephew, Charles Gabriel Sébastien, Baron de l'Espérance (born 1725, Louisbourg; died 1791). They had seven children.

D'Angeac retired to Soubise, Charente-Maritime, France where he died in 1782.