Lafayette

Marquis de, was bom in 1757, and in 1777 he left France for America, being gladly received by Washington. On his return home he was elected a member of the ‘National A embly,’ and two days after the attack on the Bastille was made Commander-in-Chief of the National Guards of Paris. In 1792 he became a major-general, and in 1818 member of the Chamber of Deputies. It was chiefly owing to him that Louis Philippe gained his throne in 1830. He died in 1834.