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    Georges Washington de La Fayette

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  1. 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.

  2. 24 December 1779. Died: 1849. On December 24, 1779, during a brief year living in France during the American Revolution, the Marquis de Lafayette welcomed his son and heir into the world. The next day Lafayette and his wife christened the baby Georges Washington Motier de Lafayette, in a gesture that Lafayette explained was "a tribute of ...

  3. Lafayette named his only son George Washington Lafayette. When the Marquis came back to the United States in 1784, he visited Washington in retirement at Mount Vernon in August, where the two men had an emotional reunion. Lafayette stayed with the Washington family at Mount Vernon for ten days. In July 1789, shortly after the start of the ...

  4. modifier. Georges Washington de La Fayette, Georges-Louis-Gilbert Dumotier de La Fayette à l'état civil 1, né le 24 décembre 1779 à Paris et mort le 29 novembre 1849 (à 69 ans) à Courpalay ( Seine-et-Marne ), est un militaire et homme politique français. Seul fils du marquis de La Fayette et de Marie Adrienne Françoise de Noailles, il ...

  5. 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.

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  7. The Frenchman now presenting himself to George Washington in the Colonial capital of Philadelphia was the 19-year-old Marquis de Lafayette, who was in America principally because he was enormously ...

  8. Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier de La Fayette, Marquis de La Fayette (6 September 1757 – 20 May 1834), known in the United States as Lafayette (/ ˌ l ɑː f iː ˈ ɛ t, ˌ l æ f-/, French:), was a French nobleman and military officer who volunteered to join the Continental Army, led by General George Washington, in the American Revolutionary War.

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