Lafayette, we are here for you.

By Colin S. Sargent

Two hundred years ago, Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier de La Fayette, Marquis de La Fayette, known in America as General Lafayette from service in our war for independence, completed a thirteen-month, whirlwind tour of all 24 of the United States.

Though a retired Major General of the Continental Army, Lafayette had never broken his connection to his French noble roots; indeed, although he assisted with the writing of France’s Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, he had tried to help France steer a path toward a British-style constitutional monarchy.

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