Marquis de lafayette biography videos

Marquis de Lafayette was a French nobleman and General. He served the Americans during the American Revolution and became a trusted voice and friend to George Washington.

After the war, he became a national hero and returned to France, where he carried many of the ideas of America to the French. He became an influential voice in the French Revolution.

Marquis de Lafayette Biography: Early Life

Lafayette was born on 6 September 1757 to Michel Louis Christophe Roch Gilbert Paulette du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette, colonel of grenadiers, and Marie Louise Jolie de La Rivière, at the château de Chavaniac, in Chavaniac-Lafayette, near Le Puy-en-Velay, in the province of Auvergne.

He came from a prestigious family with a long history and even had an ancestor who aided the legendary Joan of Arc.

Unfortunately, his father died in battle at the Battle of Minden, and although the estate went to his mother, she mo