Michel Boucher wrote:

> "Gregory Morrow" >
> wrote in nk.net:
>
> > Even Landry's corny site sux - BIG time:
> >
> > http://www.landrysrestaurants.com/home.htm
>
> Cadillac Authentic Mexican????? What is the connection there?
>
> Cadillac is the name of a distant collateral of mine, Antoine de la
> Mothe Cadillac, sieur de Pontchartrain. Yes, the very same who founded
> Le détroit and was governor of Louisiane. He married the granddaughter
> of one of two of my ancestors, François Boucher and Jehan Guyon.
>

Hey Michel give 'em a ring - maybe they'll give you a discount coupon or
something ;o)

Obviously the name "Cadillac" is not a copyrighted brand name, correct? At
least I guess you couldn't name a non - GM car a Cadillac but you can use
the name for a resto....

Wouldn't it be cool if GM's luxury make had been named Boucher instead of
Cadillac? Imagine the possibilities: "Boucher - Standard of the
World"..."Introducing the new 1957 Boucher Fleetwood 75
Limousine"....Marilyn Monroe in _How To Marry A Millionaire_ in that scene
when her, Betty Grable, and Lauren Bacall are sitting around their terrace
and dreaming of what rich guys they'd they marry, Marilyn dreamily saying
"And I'd like to marry Mr. Boucher!". They respond "But there isn't any Mr.
Boucher!", to which Marilyn responds "Well, I can dream, can't I...???".

--
Best
Greg

"Gregory Morrow" >
wrote in ink.net:

> Obviously the name "Cadillac" is not a copyrighted brand name,
> correct?

It's a family name in France:

Charles Laumet dit Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac
Huteau de Cadillac

Cadillac is a town in the Bordeaux region where they produce a white
wine bearing the name Cadillac. It is suggested by locals that
Charles Laumet was not born in Cadillac but he borrowed the name from
another family. On the whole, Charles Laumet's reputation was
tarnished in France because of a disagreement with the Jesuits as to
the management of the colony, where he favoured miscegenation and the
Jesuits opposed it. Upon his return to France, he was arrested,
presumably to force him to turn over his possessions of mines in the
Louisiane to the Crown.

A similar thing happened to François Bigot, the last intendant at
Québec. Although he never failed to supply troops during the Seven
Years War and sometimes resorted to paying them directly from his
personal purse due to cash shortages, he was arrested upon his return
to France and forced to turn over 2/3 of his sizeable fortune to the
Crown (a sum of 1 million livres), or be imprisoned under a new law
that forbade officials from deriving personal profit from their
appointments. The law was passed *after* he had returned to France,
but applied to his situation which was antecedent, obviously aimed at
divesting him of this fortune.

Bigot, disgusted, moved to Switzerland and never set foot in France
again.

--

German to Picasso in front of Guernica: Did you do this?
Picasso to German in front of Guernica: No, it was you.

"Gregory Morrow" >
wrote in ink.net:

> Obviously the name "Cadillac" is not a copyrighted brand name,
> correct?

It's a family name in France:

Charles Laumet dit Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac
Huteau de Cadillac

Cadillac is a town in the Bordeaux region where they produce a white
wine bearing the name Cadillac. It is suggested by locals that
Charles Laumet was not born in Cadillac but he borrowed the name from
another family. On the whole, Charles Laumet's reputation was
tarnished in France because of a disagreement with the Jesuits as to
the management of the colony, where he favoured miscegenation and the
Jesuits opposed it. Upon his return to France, he was arrested,
presumably to force him to turn over his possessions of mines in the
Louisiane to the Crown.

A similar thing happened to François Bigot, the last intendant at
Québec. Although he never failed to supply troops during the Seven
Years War and sometimes resorted to paying them directly from his
personal purse due to cash shortages, he was arrested upon his return
to France and forced to turn over 2/3 of his sizeable fortune to the
Crown (a sum of 1 million livres), or be imprisoned under a new law
that forbade officials from deriving personal profit from their
appointments. The law was passed *after* he had returned to France,
but applied to his situation which was antecedent, obviously aimed at
divesting him of this fortune.

Bigot, disgusted, moved to Switzerland and never set foot in France
again.

--

German to Picasso in front of Guernica: Did you do this?
Picasso to German in front of Guernica: No, it was you.