Lafayette 250th anniversary celebration collection, 2006-2008.

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Lafayette 250th anniversary celebration collection, 2006-2008.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/191031713

Documentation relating to the anniversary celebrations at Cornell, Mount Vernon, Lafayette College, the New-York Historical Society, and in Paris. Includes programs, menus, invitations, catalogs, and clippings.

.2 cubic feet.

Cornell University Library

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Cornell University Library

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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...