found: LC data base, 6/19/86(hdg.: Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834; usage: Lafayette; La Fayette; Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de Lafayette; général Lafayette)
found: Bib. nat., 1925- :v. 85, p. 795 (La Fayette (Gilbert [Marie-Joseph-Paul-Roch-Yves-Gilbert] Du Motier, Mis de))
found: La Grande enc., 1885- :v. 21, p. 742 (La Fayette (Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert Motier, marquis de); général et homme politique français, b. château de Chavaniac (Haute-Loire) 6 Sept. 1757; d. Paris 20 mai 1834)
found: Grand dict. enc. Larousse, c1984:p. 6079 (La Fayette (Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Motier, marquis de); homme politique français (Chavaniac, Auvergne 1757-Paris 1834))
found: Enc. Brit., c1972:v. 13, p. 592 (Lafayette (La Fayette) Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de (1757-1834); French soldier, statesman, and hero of the American War of Independence)
found: Enc. Americana, c1975:v. 16, p. 632 (Lafayette (sometimes La Fayette), marquis de (Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier))
found: Cherkasov, P.P. General Lafaĭet, 1990:p. 3 (Mari Zhozef Polʹ Iv Rok Zhilʹber Di︠u︡ Motʹe de Lafaĭet)
found: Wikipedia, Sept. 5, 2013(born 6 September 1757 in Chavaniac, France, and died 20 May 1834 in Paris, France; a French aristocrat, politician, and military officer, he served as a general in the American Revolutionary War, and as a leader of the Garde nationale during the French Revolution; he became a United States citizen during his lifetime, and received honorary United States citizenship in 2002; for his accomplishments in the service of both France and the United States, he is known as "The Hero of the Two Worlds")
