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Photograph taken in 1775 --------------Age Enhanced Photograph

MARQUIS de LAFAYETTE

A.K.A.
Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier

Aliases:
- Marie Adrienne Francoise de Noailles, his wife; she is the daughter of one of the richest and most powerful families in France.
- George Washington, met him when promoted to major general in the Continental Army. He was like the father Lafayette never had. During the Battle of Brandywine Marquis leg was injured and Washington told the surgeon to treat him like a son because "I love him as if he were."
- Abbe Fayon - the Jesuit priest that taught him his French, Latin, history, tales and chivalric codes many aristocrats went by. He was Marquis tutor from age five to age fifteen.

DESCRIPTION

Date of Birth: September 6, 1757

Eyes: Brown

Place of Birth: Auvergne, France

Sex: Male

Height: 5'6

Nationality: French

Weight/Size Clothing: 180 pounds/Size 17

Complexion: Light

Race: White

Occupation: Military Leader, Statesman

Hair: Light thin brown, receding hair, ear-length

FAMILY INFORMATION:

Both of his parents came from noble families and military was an honored tradition.
- His father was killed in the Battle of Minden in the Seven Years' War. In 1770 his mother died from an unexpected disease and a little later his grandfather followed.
- He was raised by his grandmother and aunts.
- He got married to a women named Marie Adrienne Francoise de Noailles, when he was only sixteen years of age [April 11^th, 1774].

FINANCIAL STATE:

Lafayette inheirted his family's riches and also his wife brought some more riches so he remained fairly rich for the majority of his life.

GENERAL FACTS ABOUT HIM [Favorites]:

Foods: Oleo, Pigeons, Sirloin of Beef roast, Venison, Chyne of Mutton, Turkey, Snipes, Ducks, Partridges.

Drinks: Tea and Beer
Jewerly preference: His gold watch with his initials engraved in it [MdL].

SCANDALOUS AFFAIRS:

Although he married already like many other men in this time he took part in flirting with other women, and he also had “friendship with muses.”

- Diane de Simiane, she became his mistress in the near the beginning of the 1780’s. His wife knew about his spending time with her and even let him have retreats with her, and persisted that the children called Diane “aunt”.
- In Queen Marie-Antoinette’s diary he was said to be her erotic partner and that she did everything with him.He is featured on the back of fan, with herself and other figures in her life like her son, and her husband King Louis XVI.

IMPORTANT DATES:

August 1775 – he went to a dinner, there the Duke of Gloucester gave empathy for the colonies in America. This inspired Marquis to join the American Rebels. He was committed to this for his whole entire life.

Work Cited:

Naughty facts [women]: http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/lafayette/exhibition/english/women/index.html

Favorite Food:
http://www.umich.edu/~ece/student_projects/food/foods.htm

Name, Brief History, Known Contacts:
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