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She was the daughter of Jean de Noailles and Henriette Anne Louise d'Aguesseau. [1] On 11 April 1774, she married Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette , who left France in 1776 to volunteer in the American Revolutionary War where he served under General George Washington , then later became a key figure in the French Revolution of 1789.
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 ...
On 22 May 1754, he married Marie Louise Jolie de la Rivière (1737–1770), the daughter the Marquis de la Rivière, a rich nobleman from Brittany. She was a heiress of an ancient line of powerful nobles with vast estates and her family had ties to the "noblesse de la robe",the royal family's inner circle of courtiers. [6]
Zoom-in of The oath of La Fayette at the Fête de la Fédération showing young Georges Washington de La Fayette. Georges Washington Louis Gilbert de La Fayette (24 December 1779 – 29 November 1849) was the son of Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, the French officer and hero of the American Revolution, and Adrienne de La Fayette.
The Marquis de Lafayette made a triumphant return to Seacoast New Hampshire communities Sunday, Sept. 1, exactly 200 years after he last visited.
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 arranged marriage had been worked out by Adrien-Maurice, 3rd duc de Noailles, who had worked with Chancellor d'Aguesseau. She maintained a salon at the family residence in Paris, the Hôtel de Noailles. [4] She disapproved of the arranged marriage of her daughter Adrienne with Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, in view of their youth. [5]
In 1825, during the Marquis de Lafayette's national tour of the United States, the old soldier stayed at McNairy's house while the McNairys stayed with his brother, N. A. McNairy. According to a history of the visit, McNairy's "wife was the daughter of a prosperous Philadelphia trader.