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La Fayette — French officer who fought alongside the American insurgents, then a figure of the Revolution’s early years
An Auvergnat officer who left to serve the American insurgents before his king committed to them, he returned a general and was, in the Revolution’s first years, the most popular man in the kingdom before becoming one of the most contested. He lived long enough to see three regimes fall that he had served or fought. (Editorial synthesis)
La Fayette was born on 6 September 1757. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
La Fayette was born at the château de Chavaniac. (source: Larousse)
La Fayette died on 20 May 1834. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
La Fayette died in Paris. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
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