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 ...

Excerpted from “A Son and his Adoptive Father: The Marquis de Lafayette and George Washington” 2006 exhibition at Mount Vernon. So passionate was the Marquis de Lafayette to join the fight for ...

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 ...

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.

When he visited Erie on June 3,1825, Gilbert du Motier, the Marquis de Lafayette, was regaled with accounts of another hero's role in winning a second war with England. Lafayette had returned to ...

Two centuries after his death, the descendants of the notorious Marquis de Sade have finally embraced their once-reviled relative. The French aristocrat scandalised his contemporaries with his ...

Valentine Giesey, who is buried in Christ Episcopal Churchyard in Brownsville. Giesey served as a host for Gen. Marquis de Lafayette during his farewell tour of the United States While researching the ...

From there, he went on to make waves in Lafayette's bar and restaurant scene. Leger helped open POUR Restaurant & Bar in River Ranch, became a certified sommelier in 2011, and took the leap to ...

This life-sized likeness of the Marquis de Lafayette depicting his time as a Revolutionary War general is on display for a special exhibit at the Fayette County Historical Society’s Abel Colley ...