Medal depicting Lafayette, after a drawing by Gatteaux [manuscript] 1934.

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Medal depicting Lafayette, after a drawing by Gatteaux [manuscript] 1934.

Given to the University of Virginia by the French government to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Lafayette's death.

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University of Virginia. 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...

Gatteaux, Edouard 1788-1881

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