Antoine Laumet

Antoine Laumet (1658 - 1730), known as of Mothe-Cadillac , is a French adventurer who founded Détroit and was governor of Louisiana.

Antoine Laumet is born the March 5th 1658 with localities the “Laumets”, commune of Caumont, near of the Saint-Nicolas-of-the-Serious village of in Tarn-et-Garonne. One knows little thing of his youth. Although it did many efforts to make accept its noble ascent, its father, Jean Laumet and his mother, Jeanne Pechagut are simple commoners. At all events, it had received an education quite higher than the average because its “bulky American correspondence” “was very well written and full with spirit”.

In fact, it is better known as an adventurer French which was illustrated at the time of the French interventions in North America and in Acadie. Sent by the king of France to Americas, it unloaded in this Acadie in 1683. Four years later, in 1687, at the time of its marriage with Marie-Therese Guyon, then old of 17 years and niece of the corsair Denis Guyon, it signed the civil act of the name of loan “Antoine de Lamothe, Sieur de Cadillac”. It was registered there as “wire of Jean, adviser at the Parliament of Toulouse and Jeanne de Malenfant”. It thus does not have any bond that it is with the town of Cadillac in the Gironde.

In 1692, Laumet-Cadillac wrote its memories which were translated (in English) by Doctor Ganong and which one can find in the collections of the N.B. Hist. Soc, No 13,1930.

In 1701 it founded the Fort Pontchartrain which will become the town of Détroit, capital of American auto industry . The mark of cars Cadillac of the General Motors bears also the name of loan of the founder of Strait, as a sign of recognition.

This adventurer was named governor of the Louisiana in 1710. He also gave his name to the town of Cadillac in Michigan, not to confuse with the Cadillac-on-Garonne.

Returned in France and after a tumultuous life which will be worth to him a five months stay to the prison of the Bastille, he became governor, the February 11th 1723, of Castelsarrasin in Tarn-et-Garonne. He died there a few years later, the October 15th 1730. One can visit his native house with Nicolas-of-the-Serious St today as that where it spent its last years, in Castelsarrasin where every two years of the “Cadillac Meetings are celebrated” bringing together the amateurs of the cars of the prestigious American mark from all Europe.

Its old house of Montreal carries today a commemorative plaque on its behalf. The residence was transformed by restoring McDonald's.

Bibiography

  • Rene Toujas, the extraordinary destiny of the Lamothe-Cadillac Gascon of Saint-Nicolas-of-the-Serious founder of Strait , 1974
  • Robert Pico, Cadillac the man who founded Detroit , Editions Denoël, 1995, ISBN 2-207-24288-9
  • Annick Hivert-Carthew, Antoine de Lamothe Cadillac the founder of Strait , XYZ editor, 1996, ISBN 2-89261-178-4
  • Jean Boutonnet, LAMOTHE-CADILLAC the Gascon which founded Détroit (1658/1730) , Edition Guénégaud, 2001, ISBN 2-85023-108-8
  • Jean Maumy, Me, Cadillac, Gascon and founder of Strait , Editions Privat, 2002, ISBN 2-7089-5806-2

External bonds

  • Biography of Laumet

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