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Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, a shameless self-promoter who had already appropriated the " de la Mothe " portion of his name from a local nobleman in his native Picardy, thereafter referred to himself as Antoine de la Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, Donaquec, and Mount Desert.
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The village was incorporated as a city in 1877 and renamed Cadillac, after Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, a Frenchman who made the first permanent settlement at Detroit in 1701.
* Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, French explorer, founder of Detroit
French explorer Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac sailed up the Detroit River on July 23, 1701.
* October 15 – Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, French explorer ( b. 1658 )
Cadillac was founded in 1902 by Henry Leland, a master mechanic and entrepreneur, who named the company after his ancestor, Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, the founder of the city of Detroit.
The Cadillac automobile was named after the 17th-century French explorer Antoine Laumet de la Mothe, Sieur de Cadillac, who founded Detroit in 1701.
In that vein, Pierre Le Moyne d ' Iberville and Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville established Biloxi in 1699 and Mobile in 1701 along the Gulf coast, while Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac established Detroit in 1701 along the Great Lakes.
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In 1688, Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, an ambitious young man who had immigrated to New France and bestowed upon himself the title Sieur de la Mothe Cadillac, asked for and received of land along the Maine coast, including all of Mount Desert.
The two were linked by similarly themed names, both being named for French explorers — Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac and René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, respectively.
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The new name honors the French explorer and adventurer, Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac.
Antoine Laumet, dit de La Mothe sieur de Cadillac ( 1658 – 1730 ) was a colourful French explorer of New France.
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* 1748 – Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, French botanist ( d. 1836 )
* 1767 – Louis Antoine de Saint-Just, French military leader and politician ( d. 1794 )
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On 23 January 1878 at the Basilica of Atocha in Madrid, Alfonso married his cousin, Princess Maria de las Mercedes, daughter of Antoine, Duke of Montpensier, but she died within six months of the marriage.
Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier ( also Antoine Lavoisier after the French Revolution ; 26 August 17438 May 1794 ; ), the " father of modern chemistry ," was a French nobleman prominent in the histories of chemistry and biology.
With the French chemists Claude-Louis Berthollet, Antoine Fourcroy and Guyton de Morveau, Lavoisier devised a systematic chemical nomenclature.
Major academic sculptors of France are represented in the sculpture of the Arc de Triomphe: Jean-Pierre Cortot ; François Rude ; Antoine Étex ; James Pradier and Philippe Joseph Henri Lemaire.
:* La Résistance de 1814, by Antoine Étex
:* La Paix de 1815, by Antoine Étex
In Un Catalogue raisonné de manuscrits ethiopiens ( Paris, 1859 ) is a description of 234 Ethiopian manuscripts collected by Antoine.
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The following year they collaborated on a musical film version of The Little Prince, based on the classic children's tale by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
fr: Antoine Ier de Saxe
Most recently he appeared in Cyrano de Bergerac as Antoine de Guiche, alongside Kevin Kline, Jennifer Garner and Daniel Sunjata.
Antoine Lavoisier, in his famed 1789 Traité Élémentaire de Chimie ( Elements of Chemistry ), refers to Bergmann ’ s work and discusses the concept of elective affinities or attractions.
In the mid-1970s, a review of the American movie Jaws marked the magazine's return to more commercial perspectives, and an editorial turnover: ( Serge Daney, Serge Toubiana, Thierry Jousse, Antoine de Baecque and Charles Tesson ).
Recent writers have included Serge Daney, Serge Toubiana, Thierry Jousse, Antoine de Baecque, Vincent Ostria, Charles Tesson and Franck Nouchi, André Téchiné, Léos Carax, Olivier Assayas, Danièle Dubroux, and Serge Le Péron.
* Schnapper, Antoine, David témoin de son temps, Office du Livre, Fribourg, ( 1980 )
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