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    The Château de Chavaniac aka Chateau Lafayette is a fortified manor house of eighteen rooms furnished in the Louis XIII style located in Chavaniac-Lafayette...
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    The Château de Chavaniac, located in the commune, was the birthplace of Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette in 1757. Originally named Chavaniac, the...
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  • the château de Chavaniac, in Chavaniac-Lafayette, near Le Puy-en-Velay, in the province of Auvergne (now Haute-Loire): Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette...
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    The Château de la Grange-Bléneau is a castle in the commune of Courpalay in the Seine-et-Marne département of France. The castle was built in the 14th...
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  • Thumbnail for Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette
    Motier, Marquis de La Fayette, colonel of grenadiers, and Marie Louise Jolie de La Rivière, at the Château de Chavaniac, in Chavaniac-Lafayette, near...
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    Chambrun Château de Chavaniac Château de la Grange-Bléneaug Château-Dauphin Château de Saint Romain Château de Chouvigny Château de Tournoël Saint George...
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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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    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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    Hibben, and Nicholas Murray Butler purchased the Château de Chavaniac, birthplace of the Marquis de Lafayette in Auvergne to serve as a headquarters for...
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    Lengerke Meyer, and John Grier Hibben, purchased the Château de Chavaniac, birthplace of the Marquis de Lafayette in Auvergne, to serve as a headquarters...
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    (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, and...
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    Heroes Lafayette Memorial Fund headquartered at the Château de Chavaniac in Auvergne. The château served as a school, orphanage and preventorium for the...
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  • Musée de la Dentelle Musée du Saumon Auvers musée de la résistance au Mont Mouchet Chavaniac-Lafayette Château de Chavaniac Ambert Moulin Richard de Bas...
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    grew in Paris, the municipality voted to restore the dungeons of the Château de Vincennes to accommodate more prisoners. However, a rumour developed,...
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    The Château de Chavaniac, located in the commune, was the birthplace of Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette in 1757. Originally named Chavaniac, the...
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    exception of the princes of Bourbon-Vendôme, the king of Navarre and the prince de Condé who were conscious that they would likely be arrested if they attended...
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    Hibben, and Nicholas Murray Butler purchased the Château de Chavaniac, birthplace of the Marquis de Lafayette in Auvergne, to serve as a headquarters...
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    militaire de la France sous le règne de Louis XVI. Paris: Honoré Champion. OCLC 763372623. Monaque, Rémi (2000). Les aventures de Louis-René de Latouche-Tréville...
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  • Liberty! (category Cultural depictions of Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette)
    Burgoyne), Colm Feore (Alexander Hamilton), Sebastian Roché (The Marquis de Lafayette), Donna Murphy (Abigail Adams), Austin Pendleton (Benjamin Rush)...
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    Lengerke Meyer, and Nicholas Murray Butler purchased the Château de Chavaniac, birthplace of the Marquis de Lafayette in Auvergne to serve as a headquarters for...
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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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    Lafayette's life, sleeping two nights in the room where he was born at Château de Chavaniac in Auvergne. McCabe also traveled 7,000 miles (11,000 km) into Alaska...
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  •  • Castelnou  • Château Royal de Collioure  • Château Vicomtal Saint-Pierre de Fenouillet  • Palais des Rois de Majorque  • Fort de Salses  • Ultrère...
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  • Order of Lafayette (category Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette)
    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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    front of 120,000 people. Three miles from Le Puy are the ruins of the Château de Polignac, one of the most important feudal strongholds. Each morning,...
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    the chateau (privately owned), and the roadside cross. The patron saint's festival is usually the first weekend in August. The noble Du Peloux de Saint...
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    into the possession of the La Fayette family in c.1400 under Gilbert Motier de La Fayette. It remained in the family until the French Revolution when it...
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    depuis 1968, INSEE Base Mérimée: Ruines du château et terrain qui entoure ces ruines, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French) Official Web site Wikimedia...
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    stands on the upper reaches of the river Loire and is overlooked by the Château de Beaufort, built in the 13th century, of importance during the Hundred...
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    notable polychrome frescoes. Hôtel de la Dentelle. Maison du Saumon et de la Rivière, now an aquarium-museum. Château Domeyrat. Eparchius Avitus, buried...
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