Or as the Marquis de Lafayette jested to his son Georges Washington, “this is Mr. Morse, the painter, the son of the geographer; he has come to Washington to take the topography of my face.” ...

Princeton University Library Special Collections will showcase a selection of the University’s Marquis de Lafayette materials, that include letters, portraits, and memorabilia. This event is part of ...

The Hermione, 17 years in the making, replicates the original wartime frigate that ferried the Marquis de Lafayette ... one of them. “Lafayette is just an image. He’s the portrait of the ...

Like many monuments, Daniel Chester French’s relief sculpture in the 1917 memorial to the Marquis de Lafayette ... s Lafayette? Some comments here might help to explain further French’s choice of pose ...

On this day in 1824, the Marquis de Lafayette, a French aristocrat ... Roosevelt presided. Today, a portrait of Lafayette hangs to the left of the House speaker’s rostrum, as it has since ...

In addition to Rochester, re-enactments were planned in Mendon, Canandaigua and Geneva in homage to Lafayette.

Portrait of the Marquis de Lafayette. Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art His ship was greeted at New Point Comfort off Mathews County by a flotilla of steam and sail that escorted the ...

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 ...