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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