Cadillac Antoine de la Mothe

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Cad·il·lac

(kăd′l-ăk′, kä-dē-yäk′), Sieur Antoine de la Mothe 1658-1730.

French explorer and colonial administrator who founded Detroit, Michigan (1701), and was governor of Louisiana (1710-1716).

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