Search results
This page was last edited on 6 November 2012, at 04:20 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 4.0; additional terms may apply.
Adrienne de La Fayette. Marie Adrienne Françoise de Noailles, Marquise de La Fayette (2 November 1759 – 25 December 1807), was a French marchioness. She was the daughter of Jean de Noailles and Henriette Anne Louise d'Aguesseau. [1]
Markisen av Lafayette (fr. Marquis de Lafayette ), eg. Marie Joseph Gilbert de Motier, född 6 september 1757 på slottet Chavaniac, Auvergne, död 20 maj 1834 i Paris, var en fransk general. I sin ungdom stred han i kontinentalarmén under den amerikanska revolutionen. Under den franska revolutionen var han förespråkare för en ...
Château de Chavaniac. The Château de Chavaniac aka Chateau Lafayette [1] [2] [3] is a fortified manor house of eighteen rooms furnished in the Louis XIII style located in Chavaniac-Lafayette, Haute-Loire, in Auvergne province, France. Flanked by two towers of black stone, it was built in the 14th century and was the birthplace of General ...
Musée Carnavalet. 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. He was named in honor of George Washington, under whom his father served in the Revolutionary War.
She passed it on to her husband, General Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, who lived there from 1802 until his death in 1834. Eight years after La Fayette's death, his grandson Jules de Lasteyrie (1810–1883) married Olivia de Rohan-Chabot (1813–1899), the daughter of the émigré Louis de Rohan, Vicomte de Chabot , and Lady Charlotte ...
The Lafayette dollar was a silver coin issued as part of the United States' participation in the Paris World's Fair of 1900.Depicting Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette with George Washington, and designed by Chief Engraver Charles E. Barber, it was the only U.S. silver dollar commemorative prior to 1983, and the first U.S. coin to depict American citizens.
