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    Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac

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  1. Cadillac was born Antoine Laumet on March 5, 1658, in the small town of Saint-Nicolas-de-la-Grave in the province of Gascony (today in the Tarn-et-Garonne, Occitanie ). [5] . His father, Jean Laumet, was born in the village of Caumont-sur-Garonne. He became a lawyer in the Parliament of Toulouse.

  2. governor (1710-1717), Louisiana. Founder: Detroit. Antoine Laumet de La Mothe Cadillac (born March 5, 1658, Les Laumets, Fr.—died Oct. 15, 1730, Castelsarrasin) was a French soldier, explorer, and administrator in French North America, founder of the city of Detroit (1701), and governor of Louisiana (1710 to 1716 or 1717). Going to Canada in ...

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  4. In 1701 Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founded the site that would become the city of Detroit. He was born Antoine Laumet on March 5, 1658 in southern France. At the age of 25, he arrived in the New World and, as a coastal trader, soon became an expert on the continent’s Atlantic coast.

  5. People of Detroit: Antoine de la Mothe, Sieur de Cadillac. Antoine Laumet was born on March 5, 1658 in St. Nicholas de la Grave in Gascony, France (some sources say Department of Tarn and Garonne in place of Gascony).

  6. Quick Facts. Significance: Namesake of Cadillac Mountain in Acadia NP. Soldier, adventurer, trader and explorer. Place of Birth: Gascony, France. Date of Birth: March 5, 1658. Place of Death: Castelsarrasin, France. Date of Death: Oct. 15, 1730. Cadillac. I've Heard That Name Before! Man, Mountain, Motown.

  7. May 11, 2018 · Instead he was born Antoine Laumet in 1658 in the village of St. Nicolas-de-la-Grave in southern central France, and hailed from relatively prosperous local families on each side of his parentage; his father was a local magistrate.

  8. Jan 7, 2008 · Antoine Laumet, known as “de Lamothe Cadillac,” explorer, seigneur in Acadia, commandant of Fort Michilimackinac, founder of Detroit and of the first colony in Ontario, governor of Louisiana (born 5 March 1658 at Saint-Nicolas-de-la-Grave, France; died 16 October 1730 at Castelsarrasin, France).

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