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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac has received more than 511,036 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac is the 237th most popular explorer (up from 240th in 2019), the 2,814th most popular biography from France (down from 2,771st in 2019) and the 24th most popular French Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac ranks 237 out of 405. Before him are Alexandrine Tinné, Edward Bransfield, Carl Anton Larsen, John Byron, Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux, and Chris McCandless. After him are Samuel Baker, Ma Huan, Francis Garnier, Jorge Álvares, Annie Londonderry, and Vladimir Atlasov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1658, Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac ranks 8. Before him are Mary of Modena, Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine, Luigi Ferdinando Marsili, John Ernest IV, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Adolphus Frederick II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and Ogata Kōrin. After him are Nicolas Coustou, 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 18. Before him are Árni Magnússon, Benedicta Henrietta of the Palatinate, Ashraf Hotak, Arabella Churchill, Patrona Halil, and Nevşehirli Damat Ibrahim Pasha. After him is Sophia Elisabet Brenner.

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In France

Among people born in France, Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac ranks 2,814 out of 6,011. Before him are Musidora (1889), Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille (1797), Nicholas, Crown Prince of Montenegro (1944), John of Montfort (1294), Sylvain Maréchal (1750), and René Mayer (1895). After him are Auguste Clésinger (1814), Prince Ludwig August of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1845), Annabella (1907), Étienne de Silhouette (1709), André Hunebelle (1896), and André Glucksmann (1937).

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Among EXPLORERS In France

Among explorers born in France, Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac ranks 24. Before him are Henri Mouhot (1826), Constantin François de Chassebœuf, comte de Volney (1757), Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon (1510), René Caillié (1799), Jean-Baptiste Charcot (1867), and Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux (1737). After him are Francis Garnier (1839), Nicolas Baudin (1754), Freya Stark (1893), Pierre Poivre (1719), Édouard-Alfred Martel (1859), and Henri Duveyrier (1840).

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