by: Jordon Moore Bell-2

I think he was a good guy I think he was a hero and I think he was fighting on the right side of the war. Besides the fact that he was a freemason. But besides that he was a good person on the outside.

Lafayette was unwilling to cooperate with Napoleon's government. In 1804, Napoleon was crowned Emperor after a plebiscite in which Lafayette did not participate. He remained relatively quiet, although he spoke publicly on Bastille Day events. After the Louisiana Purchase, Jefferson asked if he would be interested in the governorship. Lafayette declined, citing personal problems and the desire to work for liberty in France.[135] During a trip to Auvergne, Adrienne became ill, largely due to her time in prison. In 1807, she became delirious but recovered enough on Christmas Eve to gather the family around her bed and to say to Lafayette: "Je suis toute à vous" ("I am all yours"). She died the next day LATER LIFE

Marquis had a wife and three children. Georges Washington- de La Fayette was the son of Gilbert du Métier, marquis de Lafayette, the French officer and hero of the American Revolution, and Adrienne de La Fayette. Lafayette named his son in the honor of George Washington, whom he fought alongside with in the Revolutionary War. HIS FAMILY

In February 1779, Lafayette returned to Paris. For disobeying the king by going to America, he was placed under house arrest for eight days. Nevertheless, his return was triumphant.[16] Benjamin Franklin's grandson presented him with a 4,800-livre gold-encrusted sword commissioned by the Continental Congress, and the king asked to see him.[43] Louis XVI, pleased with the soldier after Lafayette proposed schemes for attacking the British, restored his position in the dragoons. Lafayette used his position to lobby for more French aid to America. Working with Franklin, Lafayette secured another 6,000 soldiers to be commanded by General Jean-Baptiste de Rochambeau.[16] Lafayette received news that Adrienne had borne him a son, Georges Washington Lafayette.[44] After his son's birth, he pushed for additional commitments of support from France for the American Revolutionary War. He ordered new uniforms and arranged for the fleet's departure. Before returning to America, Lafayette and the French force learned that they would be operating under American command, with Washington in control of military operations. In March 1780, Lafayette gave power of attorney to business manager Jacques-Philippe Grattep ain-Morizot and Adrienne,[45] and left France, departing for America aboard the Hermione,[46] from Rochefort. He arrived in Boston on 28 April, carrying the then secret news that he had secured French reinforcements (5,500 men and 5 frigates) for George Washington. HIS RETURN TO FRANCE

Lafayette spoke for the last time in the Chamber of Deputies on 3 January The winter was wet and cold, and the next month he collapsed at a funeral from pneumonia. Although he recovered, the following May was wet and, after a thunderstorm, he became sick and bedridden American President Andrew Jackson ordered that Lafayette be accorded the same funeral honors as John Adams and George Washington. Therefore, 24-gun salutes were fired from military posts and ships, each shot representing a U.S. state. HIS DEATH