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Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier de La Fayette, Marquis de La Fayette [a] (French: [ʒilbɛʁ dy mɔtje maʁki d(ə) la fajɛt]; 6 September 1757 – 20 May 1834), known in the United States as Lafayette [a] (/ ˌ l ɑː f i ˈ ɛ t, ˌ l æ f-/ LA(H)F-ee-ET), was a French nobleman and military officer who volunteered to join the Continental Army, led by General George Washington ...
Marquis de Lafayette (or Portrait of La Fayette) is an oil on canvas painting by Samuel Morse, from 1825. Mostly known for his invention of the telegraph , Morse was also an artist and a professor of painting and sculpture at the University of the City of New York .
The Lafayette Memorial is a public memorial located in Brooklyn's Prospect Park in New York City.The memorial, designed by sculptor Daniel Chester French and architect Henry Bacon, was dedicated in 1917 and consists of a bas-relief of Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette alongside a groom (speculated by some historians to be James Armistead Lafayette) and a horse.
The Marquis de Lafayette writes a letter to Uticans, thanking them for donating $974 to help Poland in its rebellion to overthrow Russian rule. Lafayette — who lives in the town of Meaux, just ...
The fief La Fayette was raised to a marquisate by Letters patent in about 1690. [1]Brigadier des armées René-Armand Count and Marquis de La Fayette (1659–1694), son of Madame de La Fayette (1634–1693), and François Motier, comte de La Fayette (1616–1683), died on 12 September 1694 of an illness in Landau during the Nine Years' War.
The Marquis de Lafayette made a triumphant return to Seacoast New Hampshire communities Sunday, Sept. 1, exactly 200 years after he last visited. Marquis de Lafayette still 'rock star' of American ...
Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, was born in 1757 near Le Puy-en-Velay, France. [4] His father, Michel du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette, was a colonel who died at the Battle of Minden when his son was only two years old. [5] He was raised by his grandmother until his mother summoned him to Paris where they lived in the Luxembourg Palace.
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