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Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac

1658 - 1730

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Antoine de la Mothe, sieur de Cadillac (, French: [kadijak]; March 5, 1658 – October 16, 1730), born Antoine Laumet, was a French explorer and adventurer in New France, which stretched from Eastern Canada to Louisiana on the Gulf of Mexico. He rose from a modest beginning in Acadia in 1683 as an explorer, trapper, and a trader of alcohol and furs, achieving various positions of political importance in the colony. He was the commander of Fort de Buade in St. Ignace, Michigan, in 1694. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac is the 170th most popular explorer (up from 208th in 2019), the 2,045th most popular biography from France (up from 2,605th in 2019) and the 15th most popular French Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac ranks 170 out of 498. Before him are Otto Sverdrup, Emin Pasha, Isabelle Eberhardt, Fernão do Pó, Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux, and Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie. After him are Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, Paulo da Gama, Gaspar de Lemos, Gustav Nachtigal, Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg, and Carsten Borchgrevink.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1658, Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac ranks 7. Before him are Giuseppe Torelli, John Ernest IV, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine, Adolphus Frederick II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Mary of Modena, and Luigi Ferdinando Marsili. After him are Nicolas Coustou, Ogata Kōrin, Louis VII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani, and Elisabeth Eleonore of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. Among people deceased in 1730, Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac ranks 12. Before him are Charles I, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, Jakob Ammann, Árni Magnússon, Adrienne Lecouvreur, Luigi Ferdinando Marsili, and Hans Hermann von Katte. After him are François de Neufville, duc de Villeroy, Benedicta Henrietta of the Palatinate, Patrona Halil, Arabella Churchill, Ashraf Hotak, and Nevşehirli Damat Ibrahim Pasha.

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In France

Among people born in France, Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac ranks 2,045 out of 6,770. Before him are Marie-Guillemine Benoist (1768), René Louiche Desfontaines (1750), Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux (1737), François Girardon (1628), François Coppée (1842), and Alain Connes (1947). After him are Claude Garamond (1499), Marie Elisabeth of France (1572), Sacha Distel (1933), Francis Jammes (1868), Robert Pires (1973), and Michel Rocard (1930).

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Among EXPLORERS In France

Among explorers born in France, Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac ranks 15. Before him are Jean de Béthencourt (1362), Charles Marie de La Condamine (1701), René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (1643), Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier (1705), Jean Chardin (1643), and Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux (1737). After him are Henri Mouhot (1826), Constantin François de Chassebœuf, comte de Volney (1757), Sophie Blanchard (1778), Jean-Baptiste Charcot (1867), Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec (1734), and Francis Garnier (1839).

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