The city will soon host solid proof that “America’s favorite Frenchman,” Revolutionary War Gen. Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch ...

The last surviving major general of the American Revolution was French aristocrat Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du ...

The Green-Meldrim House is hosting an event in recognition of the 200th anniversary of Lafayette’s return to America.

Against the wishes of his family and the French crown, Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, the Marquis de LaFayette (1757-1834), financed a ship and crossed the Atlantic to join our cause.

Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier was born into the French aristocracy in 1757, a nobleman’s son and the future Marquis de Lafayette. After losing his parents as a youth, he ...

Here’s why I ask. General Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier Lafayette, a French hero of the American Revolution, was on a tour of America in 1824-25. He was stopping in major cities ...