The Marquis de Lafayette who first arrived on U.S. soil ... “Lafayette is just an image. He’s the portrait of the terrible inconsequence of the French elite of that period,” Chatel de ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — On Wednesday, April 9, the Cabildo State Museum hosted a celebration for the 200th anniversary of Marquis de Lafayette’s 1825 visit to New Orleans. One of the ways the ...

For more than a year, the Marquis de Lafayette was received like a “rock star” in every town he visited in America during the ...

The Marquis de Lafayette, or at least a highly regarded ... A Charles Willson Peale portrait of Lafayette on loan from Washington and Lee University. “This is just an iconic must-see kind ...

The Erie Canal Museum will host an event on Saturday, June 7 remembering the Revolutionary War hero, the Marquis de Lafayette, and his 1825 visit through Upstate New York.

As the bicentennial nears of Marquis de Lafayette’s return to the young country he fought for as a teenager, the onetime French aristocrat and major general in the Continental Army is the talk ...

It's a special day in Fayette County on May 30 and the county recognizes the commemoration of the bicentennial of the Marquis ...

Maj. Gen. Marquis de Lafayette will ride into Salem at 2 p.m. on June 21 as part of the 200th anniversary celebration of his 1825 Farewell Tour of ...

A relative of the Marquis de Lafayette and the man himself — so to speak — paid a personal visit to Lexington on the ...

It appears that the Marquis de Lafayette, hero of the American Revolution, had the power to cloud men’s minds. That is the only possible explanation for the varied and confused memories of his brief ...

Tom Milhollan, director of operations and development for the Washington County Historical Society, places a chair used by Marquis de Lafayette, which he sat in during his farewell tour through the ...