In Philadelphia on July 31, 1777, Lafayette met George Washington, then 45 years old, and the two men formed a life-long friendship despite differences in age and nationality.

On June 18, 1825, two-hundred years ago this week, General Lafayette returned to Boston from France to participate in the fiftieth anniversary celebration of the American Revolutionary War, and to ...

Two hundred years to the day, Major General Marquis de Lafayette was again honored by admirers when Mount Vernon Estate held a re-enactment of his Oct. 17, 1824, return to George Washington’s home.

Two centuries after the Marquis de Lafayette bid adieu to America on his famed farewell tour, the French nobleman, ...

On June 18, 1825, two-hundred years ago this week, General Lafayette returned to Boston from France to participate in the fiftieth anniversary celebration of the American Revolutionary War, and to ...

Marquis de Sade (Donatien de Sade) was born into an aristocratic Provençal family in 1740. A sexual libertine, revolutionary politician and writer, he is best known for his scandalous works ...

The marker in Jeffersonton is the second to be unveiled in Virginia through the program, following last year’s unveiling at James Madison’s Montpelier in Orange County. Lafayette visited there Nov. 15 ...

Marquis de Lafayette and King Louis XVI of France sent soldiers and ships to help the American Colonies in their revolution. Nearly 250 years later, the generosity of the Cody businesses rallied to ...