How did Marquis de Lafayette contribute to the French Revolution? It was the French Revolution of Lafayette that sparked the French Revolution. After he was elected to represent the nobility at the ...

An illustration of the triumphal arch built in 1825 to mark Revolutionary War hero Marquis de Lafayette’s visit to New Orleans, published in 1909 in The Times-Picayune.

Everyone seems to agree that Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, the Marquis de Lafayette, arrived in Cincinnati at noon on May 19, 1825. He was nearing the conclusion of a year-long ...

The Marquis de Lafayette was born Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du Motier in 1757 in the south of France, according to American Friends of Lafayette.

In 1777, a passionate young French aristocrat named Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, known as Marquis de Lafayette, set sail for America at just 19 years old. Motivated by the ...

Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, gained fame both in the fledgling United States and also his native France.

Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier de La Fayette — also known as the Marquis de Lafayette — had been invited by President James Monroe to return to America for a tour in hopes the ...

Marquis de Lafayette, Frenchman and American Revolutionary War hero, will tour Seacoast NH events Sunday, Sept. 1. Here's how you can attend.

Arlington House that October 1824 evening was illuminated with candles in order to be “sublime and imposing” for the visit, said Elizabeth Reese, who has penned “Marquis de Lafayette Returns ...

An illustration of the triumphal arch built in 1825 to mark Revolutionary War hero Marquis de Lafayette’s visit to New Orleans, published in 1909 in The Times-Picayune.