La Fayette, MARIE

MADELEINE PIOCHE DE LA VERGNE, COMPTESSE DE, 1634-1693. French novelist. Her Zaide, 1670, and Prince of Clèves, 1678, were in the modern style. IMG:content-0992.png:[graphic] IMG:content-0993.png:[merged small][merged small][graphic] IMG:content-0994.jpg:[graphic] IMG:content-0995.png:[graphic] Marquis de Lafayette. struggle toward constitutional liberty, and presented the Declaration of Rights, modeled on the Dec. of Independence. He was imprisoned in Austria 1792-97, revisited the U. S. 1824-25, and in the revolution of 1830 had command of the National Guard. He was a pure and high-minded patriot, and the most efficient foreign friend of American independence.