Author:Gilbert du Motier de Lafayette

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Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier de Lafayette
(1757–1834)

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Marquis de Lafayette: French aristocrat, military officer, and key figure in the American and French revolutionary wars.

Works

Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (1789), co-drafter with the Abbé Sieyès.

Works about Lafayette

"La Fayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)

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