Antique engraving, circa 1860, of Marie Jean Paul, Marquis de Lafayette. SOURCE: ORIGINAL FIRST GENERATION STEEL PLATE ENGRAVING.

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Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier de La Fayette, Marquis de La Fayette (1757 - 1834), in the often known simply as Lafayette, was a French aristocrat and military officer born in Chavaniac, in the province of Auvergne in south central France. Lafayette was a general in the American Revolutionary War and a leader of the Garde nationale during the French Revolution.

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