The Marquis de Lafayette is a celebrated political and military figure of the revolutionary era, spearheading pivotal moments ...

Casually work the name Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier into a conversation, and you’re likely to get blank stares from all but the most intense history buffs. But substitute his ...

Gilbert du Motier was 19 when he departed France for the United States in 1777, leaving behind a young daughter and a pregnant wife. He excitedly told his father-in-law, “You will be astounded. I am a ...

Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, known simply as “Lafayette” in the U.S., is pictured. WESTFIELD – The Chautauqua County Historical Society will hold its annual meeting on Saturday, April 12, ...

THE APOSTLE OF LIBERTY (344 pp.)—Maurice de la Fuye and Emile Babeau —Yoseloff ($5). When liberty seemed mainly the preoccupation of a few French philosophers and the dissident American colonials, a ...