Lafayette Manuscripts 1792-1834

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Lafayette Manuscripts 1792-1834

Contains 37 documents, primarily correspondence written by or to MarieJoseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Montier, Marquis de Lafayette (1757-1834). Also included areletters related to Lafayette's son, George Washington du Motier de Lafayette (1779-1849) andgrandson, Edmond du Motier de Lafayette (1818-1888). Codex Ms 303.

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Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834

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Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette was born at Chavaniac, Auvergne, in 1757, to an old, illustrious family of the provincial and military nobility. He lost both his parents early: his father was killed by the British at the Battle of Minden when Lafayette was two years old (1759), and when he was thirteen and attending the prestigious Collège de Plessis in Paris both his mother and grandfather died (1770). The latter's death left Lafayette with a si...

Lafayette, Georges Washington Louis Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1779-1849

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Son of the American Revolutionary hero, the marquis de Lafayette. From the description of Letter of Georges Washington Louis Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, 1844. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71014865 ...

Lafayette, Edmond de

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