• Michel Louis Christophe Roch Gilbert Motier, Marquis de La Fayette (13 August 1731 – 9 July 1759) was a colonel in the French Grenadiers. Michel Louis...
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    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...
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    Princesse de Clèves, France's first historical novel and one of the earliest novels in literature Michel du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette (1731–1759)...
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    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...
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    The La Fayette Escadrille (French: Escadrille de La Fayette) was the name of the French Air Force unit escadrille N 124 during the First World War (1914–1918)...
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    Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, who lived there from 1802 until his death in 1834. Eight years after La Fayette's death, his grandson Jules de Lasteyrie...
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  • life of Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, in particular his role in the American War of Independence. Michel Le Royer - La Fayette Howard St. John...
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    Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, was born in 1757 near Le Puy-en-Velay, France. His father, Michel du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette, was a colonel...
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  • armies of the king. His intervention enabled Michel du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette to marry Marie-Julie de la Riviere, who came from a wealthier and more...
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    Fleury, Michel (1993). "Gilles de Rais ou les malheurs de l'Histoire". Bulletin de la Société d'études et de recherches historiques du pays de Retz. Paimbœuf...
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    Fort Diamond after its shape, was renamed in 1823 to celebrate the Marquis de La Fayette, a hero of the American Revolution who would soon commence a grand...
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    went to the Tuileries Palace, in Paris, to defend King Louis XVI while Marquis de Lafayette led the National Guard in Vincennes to stop a riot. A confrontation...
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  • Liberty! (category Cultural depictions of Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette)
    John Burgoyne), Colm Feore (Alexander Hamilton), Sebastian Roché (The Marquis de Lafayette), Donna Murphy (Abigail Adams), Austin Pendleton (Benjamin Rush)...
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    convoys and chasing privateers. She became famous when she ferried General La Fayette to the United States in 1780 in support of the rebels in the American...
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    Battle of Rossbach (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
    de Custine); (3) the Comte de Doyat; (4) Michel du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette (the father of Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette—Lafayette's father...
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    Protestant power had to be broken. There was no specific discussion of a march on La Rochelle, but the notables firmly supported the king's desire to destroy the...
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    troops (the brigades of John Glover and James Mitchell Varnum) led by the Marquis de Lafayette. News of the French involvement rallied support for the cause...
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  • as Gabrielle de Polastron, duchesse de Polignac Sam Neill as Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette Christopher Thompson as Louis de Saint-Just Raymond...
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    by the Austrians at Rochefort, being taken prisoner with Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette. However, his release was quickly negotiated while his...
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    Adrienne Françoise de Noailles, Marquise de La Fayette (1759–1807), French marchioness, wife of the Marquis de Lafayette Aimé Picquet du Boisguy (1776–1839)...
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    French House of La Fayette, and the king is a descendant of Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, and Marie Adrienne Françoise de Noailles.[citation...
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  • Order of Lafayette (category Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette)
    and decorated veteran of the First World War. The Order's patron is the Marquis de Lafayette, the French officer who was commissioned a general in the Continental...
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    for House of Bourbon, European Royal House) Fayette County (named for Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette) Gallatin County (named for Albert Gallatin...
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  • is trying to save him. Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette (6 September 1757 – 20 May 1834) (voiced by Vince Corazza)...
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    de Montberon, Lord of Engoumois (died 1422), Marshal of France in 1418 Gilbert Motier de La Fayette (1396–1464), Marshal of France in 1421 Antoine de...
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  • Motier, marquis de La Fayette (général en chef) Louis Marie Levesque de Laferrière (général de division) Justin Laffite (général de brigade) Michel Pascal...
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    Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, the Marquis de LaFayette whose great grand-father was the Baron of Vissac, Charles Motier of Champetierès. Garoutte...
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    Claude Motier de la Fayette, seigneur de Hautefeuille. Gilbert III de Lévis, comte de Ventadour, governor of Limousin and then of Lyonnais, pair de France...
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    "From here on March 25, 1777, embarked Marie Joseph Paul Yves Gilbert Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, with the hope of joining the Americas." After returning...
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    Battle of Minden (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Marquis de La Fayette and colonel aux Grenadiers de France, was killed when he was hit by a cannonball in this battle. La Fayette's son, Gilbert du Motier...
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