Rue de Cadillac. Antoine Laumet (1658-1730) was a colourful figure in the history of New France, who gave himself the name and title "de Lamothe, sieur de Cadillac". He arrived in 1683 at Port-Royal, Acadia, where Governor Frontenac made him a lieutenant and later a captain. In 1694 he was named commander of the fort of Michillimakinac in Michigan. When he had to return to Canada owing to a royal edict restricting the fur trade, he left the Great Lakes in a state of tension but arrived with 176 000 pounds of beaver pelts! He returned to France to convince Pontchartrain to found a colony at Detroit, which he commanded 1701-1710. He was then named governor of Louisiana, but returned to France in 1717, where he died.
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