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Full biographical treatments of Lafayette include W.E. Woodward, Lafayette (1938); Laura Auricchio, The Marquis: Lafayette Reconsidered (2014); and Harlow Giles Unger, Lafayette (2002). A concise overview of his life can be found in Marc Leepson, Lafayette (2011). Auguste Levasseur, Lafayette in America, in 1824 and 1825, trans. from French by Alan R. Hoffman (2006), is an in-depth look at his farewell tour. Jason Lane, General and Madame de Lafayette (2003), examines Lafayette’s life and marriage through his personal letters.

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Add new Web site: The American Revolution Institute of the Society of the Cincinnati - A Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution. Apr 14, 2025
Questions and answers revised. Dec 21, 2024
Questions and answers added. Dec 20, 2024
Lafayette is the sixth person to have been granted honorary U.S. citizenship, not the fifth. Dec 20, 2024
Add new Web site: Encyclopedia Virginia - Marquis de Lafayette (1757–1834). Dec 16, 2024
Add new Web site: National Park Service - Marquis de Lafayette. Oct 22, 2024
Anniversary information added. Sep 02, 2024
Add new Web site: Lafayette College - The Marquis de Lafayette. Jul 23, 2024
Anniversary information added. May 16, 2024
Add new Web site: La Salle University Digital Commons - Man, Myth, Marquis: A Historiographic Essay on the Marquis de Lafayette. May 07, 2024
First paragraph modernization. Mar 20, 2024
Add new Web site: Libertarianism.org - Generous Heart: Marquis de Lafayette. Mar 07, 2024
Links and photo added. Oct 20, 2023
Add new Web site: Alpha History - Marquis de Lafayette. Jun 23, 2023
Add new Web site: Thomas Jefferson's Monticello - Marquis de Lafayette. May 11, 2023
Add new Web site: Pennsylvania Center for the Book - Biography of Marquis de Lafayette. Mar 31, 2023
Add new Web site: World History Encyclopedia - Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette. Nov 21, 2022
Corrected display issue. Jan 07, 2021
Add new Web site: American Battlefield Trust - Marquis de Lafayette. Jan 15, 2019
Changed title from "Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette" to "Marquis de Lafayette." May 15, 2018
Add new Web site: George Washington's Mount Vernon - Marquis de Lafayette. Jul 15, 2016
Bibliography revised. May 18, 2015
Article thoroughly revised. May 18, 2015
Add new Web site: United States History - Biography of Marquis de Lafayette. Jul 22, 2014
Add new Web site: National Park Service - Biography of Marquis de Lafayette. Jul 22, 2014
Media added. Nov 05, 2009
Added new Web site: How Stuff Works - History - Biography of Marquis De Lafayette. Nov 05, 2008
Added new Web site: Cornell University - The Lafayette Collection - Biography, Primary Documents, and Images. Jun 19, 2007
Added new Web site: Xenophon Group - Biography of Marquis De LaFayette. Jun 19, 2007
Added new Web site: USHistory.org - The Marquis de Lafayette. Aug 02, 2006
Added new Web site: USHistory.org - The Marquis de Lafayette. Aug 02, 2006
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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