Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, French general (died 1834)

Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette

French military officer and politician (1757–1834)

Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier de La Fayette, Marquis de La Fayette, known in the United States as Lafayette, was a French military officer and politician who volunteered to join the Continental Army, led by General George Washington, in the American Revolutionary…