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The '''Marquis de Lafayette''', (Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du Motier) was a French nobleman. He emerged during the [[American Revolutionary War]] and later during the [[French Revolution]], initially as a revolutionary and later as a more conservative force. | The '''Marquis de Lafayette''', (Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du Motier) was a French nobleman. He emerged during the [[American Revolutionary War]] and later during the [[French Revolution]], initially as a revolutionary and later as a more conservative force. | ||
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The Marquis de Lafayette, (Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du Motier) was a French nobleman. He emerged during the American Revolutionary War and later during the French Revolution, initially as a revolutionary and later as a more conservative force.
Lafayette was orphaned at a young age on the death of his weathy land owner parents. He married at sixteen to a fourteen year old girl, before travelling at the age of 19 and arrived in North America to assist the colonists in the War of Independence. He gained such influence that he helped write the American Consititution, which was later to be of use in assisting to write the French version after the French Revolution overthrew the monarchy.