Pérrine Mallet or Malet was the second wife of the immigrant ancestor Marin Boucher. We are descended from the first wife (Julienne Du Baril) through Joseph Arthur Martin, and from Pérrine through Joseph's wife, Marie Eva Jean.

The Malet or Mallet family lived in Courgeon in the Mortagne, in that same small region which produced their Bouchers and other first-wave settlers of Québec. We know that Jean Malet married Marie Daussy there sometime about 1575, and that he died sometime before February 10, 1615 (the date of his son Pierre's death). Pierre Mallet (born 1581?) was a farm laborer; his wife's name was Jacqueline Liger or Leger (born 1585; her father's name was François). They were married in Courgeon on March 16, 1602. They did not emigrate, and we do not know when Jacqueline died. Pérrine was probably an orphan when Marin Boucher married her as his second wife and brought her to Canada in 1634 (with his son by his first wife Julienne Du Baril, from who we are also descended). The Courgeon parish church (above) is called Nôtre-Dame-de-Saint-Savin.

See Boucher for Pérrine's children by Marin Boucher. She died August 24, 1687 at Château-Richer.