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Born in Chavaniac, near Brioude,
in Haute-Loire. Députy of Auvergne in March 1789. |
Lafayette (Cornell University) | |
| La Fayette's Monument, at the angle of rue du Commerce and rue Savaron, Brioude. "My heart has been
attached to Brioude for my whole life.
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LAFAYETTE A LA VILLE DE BRIOUDE" La Fayette's sash exposed in the great stairs of the City Hall of Brioude |
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| Portrait of Lafayette by P. Mors |  |
Stamps about Lafayette |
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Lafayette's arms. |
Beautiful page about Lafayette |
| Lafayette arriving in the United States in 1777 |  |
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Beautiful link to his genealogy |
 Bust by Jean-Antoine Houdon between 1785 and 89 |
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| Lafayette: US Citizen.
In late July 2002, the US Congress voted to make Lafayette an honorary
Citizen of the United States. This particular honor places Lafayette
among only five others who were similarly honored: Winston Churchill,
Mother Teresa, Raoul Wallenberg, and Pennsylvania founder William Penn
and his wife Hannah. While this dignity signals a collective twenty-first century awareness of Lafayette's contribution to the Nation, historians are reminded that Lafayette had already been made a citizen of Maryland (1785) and of New York City (1784). Therefor, Lafayette effectively became a US Citizen when Maryland became a state in the formation of the new ‘United States'. This issue is addressed in Louis Gottschalk's Lafayette Between the American and French Revolution (1950); Appendix III and pages 145-47 of the main text. |
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