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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.
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 ...
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.
Their daughter was Anne (1475-1524). She married Louis Lastic. La Fayette also had a natural daughter, Louise (died 1456). In 1419, she married Jehan de La Roche who inherited the Château de Tournoël, subject to an usufruct. Jehan was killed during the Battle of Verneuil in August 1424 at age 22. Louise and Jehan had three children.
Together, they were the parents of a son who was born at the château de Chavaniac, in Chavaniac-Lafayette, near Le Puy-en-Velay, in the province of Auvergne (now Haute-Loire): [8] [a] Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette (1757–1834), who played a significant role in the American and French Revolutions. [1]
For instance, when Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette visited Boston, Grace was the hostess for the combined Thorndike and Webster reception. The wife of British Naval officer Basil Hall, who could be hard to please, states that Webster held the most impressive dinners that she had seen in America. [18]