A complete history of the Marquis de Lafayette, major-general in the American army in the war of the revolution. Embracing an account of his tour through the United States, to the time of his departure, September, 1825. By an officer in the late army.

OF
MARIE PAUL JOSEPH ROCH YVES GILBERT
MOTI ER
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE.
THIS distinguished character was born on the sixth of
September, 1757, in the province of Auvergne, now comrn
prising the two departments of Cantal, and Puy-de-Dome,
and a part of la Haute Loire. His birth-place was the
Chateau de Chavagnac, situated about six miles f'rom the
ancient town of Brionde. The province of Auvergne is
celebrated for the valour and independence of its inhabitants, from the earliest times. His ancestors ranked among
the first people of the province, and had ever been conspicuous for their independent spirit, and- chivalric contempt
of danger. The Marechal de Lafayette, once the terror
of the British, is distinguished in the annals of France;
and his relation, Madame de Lafayette, was a lady of extensive literary celebrity. Inheriting the spirit of his fathers, he became the early advocate of political freedom
and imbibed the most ardent attachment to the principles
of rational liberty.
Between the age of seven and eight years, he was placed
at the college: of Louis le Grand, at Paris, where he re