Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette

MarieJoseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette , in the U.S. often known simply as Lafayette, was a French aristocrat and military officer who fought for the United States in the American Revolutionary War. A close friend of George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and Thomas Jefferson, Lafayette was a key figure in the French Revolution of 1789 and the July Revolution of 1830.

Lafayette was born onSeptember 1757 to Michel Louis Christophe Roch Gilbert Paulette du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette, colonel of grenadiers, and Marie Louise Jolie de La Rivire, at the chteau de Chavaniac, in ChavaniacLafayette, near Le PuyenVelay, in the province of Auvergne .

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