Audet, Quebec
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Audet is a municipality in the Municipalité régionale de comté du Granit
Le Granit Regional County Municipality, Quebec
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 in Estrie
Estrie
The Estrie is an administrative region of Quebec that overlaps mostly the Eastern Townships. Estrie, a French neologism, was coined as a derivative of est, "east."...

, Quebec
Quebec
Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....

, Canada
Canada
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. Population is 662 as of 2006.

Although the post office has been known has Audet since 1894, named after Michel Audet, the first postmaster, the municipality was known as Saint-Hubert-de-Spaulding until 1959, referring to the township of Spaulding, in which it is located.

Audet sits on a plateau at 535 metres in altitude in the Appalachians
Appalachian Mountains
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, making it one of the highest municipalities in Quebec.

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