Gilbert Motier, marquis de La Fayette
Crédit : http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_du_Motier_de_La_Fayette
EARLY LIFE
La Fayette was born on September 6, 1757 to Michel Louis Christophe Roch Gilbert Paulette du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette, colonel of grenadiers, and Marie Louise Jolie de La Rivière, at the château de Chavaniac, in Chavaniac, near Le Puy-en-Velay, in the modern department of Haute-Loire. His full name is rarely used; instead he is often referred to as the marquis de La Fayette or Lafayette.
Château de Chavaniac, Chavaniac-Lafayette
Crédit : http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chavaniac-Lafayette
La Fayette’s lineage appears to be one of the oldest in Auvergne. Members of the family were noted for their contempt for danger.
La Fayette’s father, struck by a cannonball at the Battle of Minden in Westphalia, died on 1 August 1759. La Fayette became Lord of Chavaniac, but the estate went to his mother. La Fayette’s mother and his maternal grandfather, the Marquis de La Rivière, died, on 3 and 24 April 1770 respectively, leaving La Fayette an income of 25,000 livres. Upon the death of an uncle, the 12-year-old Lafayette inherited a handsome yearly income of 120,000 livres. La Fayette was raised by his paternal grandmother, Mme de Chavaniac, who had brought the château into the family with her dowry. Also in the household were Mme de Chavaniac’s daughters Madeleine du Motier, and Charlotte de Guérin, the Baronne de Chavaniac.
Armes des Motier de La Fayette : De gueules à la bande d’or et à la bordure de vair.
Devise : Cur Non (Pourquoi pas)
Crédit : http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lafayette
April 11, 1774, he married Marie Adrienne Francoise de Noailles (1759-1807) daughter of the Duke d’Ayen, with a dowry of 200 000 pounds which at the time was a very large sum.
His marriage allows it to be presented to the Court because his wife’s family, one of the oldest of the Court of France is related to Madame de Maintenon, his wife Marie Adrienne being her niece.
Marie Adrienne Françoise de Noailles / Madame de La Fayette
Credit: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrienne_de_La_Fayette
Until 1771 La Fayette studied at the Collège du Plessis (Lycée Louis-le-Grand), while being a trainee to become an officer at the Musketeers of military Household of King of France.
In 1775, La Fayette (Captain of Cavalery) took part in his unit’s annual training in Metz, where he met Charles-François de Broglie, marquis de Ruffec, the Army of the East’s commander. When he first learned of that quarrel, he wrote, « My heart was enlisted and I thought only of joining the colors. » La Fayette returned to Paris in the fall and participated in “sociétés de pensée” (our modern think tanks) that discussed French involvement in the American Revolution. At these meetings, a frequent speaker, Abbé Guillaume Raynal, criticised the nobility, the clergy and the practice of slavery. The monarchy banned Raynal from speaking, and he expressed his views secretly in the Grand Orient de France masonic lodges of which La Fayette was a member « My heart was dedicated. » La Fayette said.
Louis XVI Roi de France (1754-1793) par Duplessis
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_XVI_de_France
Portrait de Victor-François de Broglie / Spiritual Brother of Lafayette
Crédit : http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor-Françooris_de_Broglie_(1718-1804)
Abbé Guillaume Raynal / Spritual Father of Lafayette
Crédit : http://fr.wikipedia.org
DEPARTURE FRON FRANCE / JOINING THE AMERICAN WAR
Young Marquis de Lafayette in a uniform of major general of the Continental Army.
On December 7, 1776, La Fayette arranged through Silas Deane, an American agent in Paris, to enter the American service as a major general. Lafayette visited his uncle Marquis de Noailles, the Ambassador to Britain. During a ball at Lord George Germain’s, he met Lord Rawdon, met Sir Henry Clinton at the Opera, and met Lord Shelburne at breakfast. Lafayette refused to toast King George, and left after three weeks. In 1777, the French government granted the American military one million livres in supplies after Minister Charles Gravier pressed for French involvement. De Broglie intrigued with his old subordinate, German Johann de Kalb, (who had previously done a reconnaissance of America), to send French officers to fight alongside the Americans, (and perhaps set up a French generalissimo). De Broglie approached Gravier, suggesting assistance to the American revolutionaries. De Broglie then presented La Fayette, who had been placed on the reserve list, to de Kalb.
Departure for America
Returning to Paris, La Fayette found that the Continental Congress did not have the money for his voyage; hence he acquired the sailing ship La Victoire himself in Bordeaux. The king officially forbade him to leave after British spies discovered his plan, and issued an order for La Fayette to join his father-in-law’s regiment in Marseille, disobedience of which would be punishable by imprisonment. The British ambassador ordered the seizure of the ship La Fayette was fitting out at Bordeaux, and La Fayette was threatened with arrest.
-On April 17, 1777, he travelled to Spain (Pasajes de San Juan) for support in the American cause.
-On April 26 1777, he sailed for West Indies but change his route for America.
-On June 13, he landed on North Island near Georgetown, South Carolina.
Sources :Texts and pictures are extracted from http://www.marquisdelafayette.wikipedia.org
Comité « LIEUX DE MÉMOIRE -LAFAYETTE -SITES OF MEMORY » Committee
Lafayette, LaFayette, La Fayette, Fayette, Fayetteville, West Lafayette…
La Grange, Havre de Grace, DeBordieu
Sites in the United States (town, city, village, county, township), schools, parks, fort, public sites …
Named after General Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette.
French nobleman who fought in the American Revolutionary War and has mostly succeeded in convincing the King of France Louis XVI to helping the insurgents in the English colonies of America with an expeditionary force of over 5,000 men commanded by the Comte de Rochambeau and warships commanded by the Marquis de Grasse.
crédit: www.wikipedia.org
ALABAMA
-La Fayette (a city) / Fayette (a city) / Fayetteville (a census)
-Fayette County.
LaFayette – Alabama (a city)
LaFayette (Pronounced: /la-ˈfeɪ-ɛt/ lah-FAY-et, /la-ˈfaɪ-ɛt/ lah-FYE-et, or /ˈlʌ-feɪ-ɛt/ LUH-fay-et) is the county seat of Chambers County, Alabama, United States, 47 miles (76 km) northwest of Columbus, Georgia. As of the 2000 census, the population of the city was 3,234.
History : Chambers County was formed in 1832. The newly elected county officials opted to locate the county seat as near as possible to the center of the county. Lots for the new town were auctioned in October 1833, with proceeds from the sale financing the construction of a courthouse and jail. The town was first called Chambersville, but by the time of incorporation on January 7, 1835, the town name had been changed to Lafayette, named after Marquis de Lafayette; its spelling was changed to « LaFayette » due to the influence of newspaper editor Johnson J. Hooper, who created a fictional character called Captain Simon Suggs, a backwoods southerner who pronounced the town’s name as « La Fait ».The city’s newspaper, The Fayetteville Sun, was founded under the name The Alabama Standard in April 1841 and adopted its current name on August 3, 1881.
Scenes from the movie Mississippi Burning were filmed at the Chambers County Courthouse and in downtown LaFayette.
Lafayette is the birthplace of heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis. An 8-foot (2.4 m) bronze statue was erected in his honor in front of the Chambers County courthouse. It is also the hometown of Hoyt L. Sherman, one of artist Roy Lichtenstein’s principal art professor/mentors at The Ohio State University.
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Fayette, Alabama (a city)
Fayette is a city in Fayette County, Alabama, United States. The 2000 census lists the population as 4,922. The city is the county seat of Fayette County.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaFayette,_Alabama
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Fayetteville, Alabama (a census-designated place)
Fayetteville is a census-designated place and unincorporated community in Talladega County, Alabama, United States. Its population was 1,284 as of the 2010 census.
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www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fayetteville,_Alabama
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Fayette County, Alabama
Fayette County is a county of the U.S. state of Alabama. Its name is in honor of the Marquis de Lafayette (or de la Fayette), who aided General George Washington in the American Revolutionary War. As of the 2010 census, the population was 17,241.Its county seat is Fayette.
Fayette County was established on December 20, 1824 during Lafayette’s historic tour of the 24 United States
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Arkansas
-Fayetteville (a city with the greatest metro population) / * La Grange
-Fayette Township ( Calhoun County)
California
-Lafayette (a city) / * La Grange
-Lafayette Reservoir (Contra Costa Count) / Lafayette Hill (a former mining settlement, Nevada County) / Lafayette Park à San Francisco
Colorado
-Lafayette ( a Home Rule Municipality)
FLORIDA
Lafayette Heritage Trail Park, à Tallahassee
Lafayette conty, Florida
* La Grange (a Place in Brevard County)
Lafayette Heritage Trail Park, à Tallahassee
LAFAYETTE ET SON DOMAINE DE LA FLORIDE
Il est mondialement connu que le rôle du Marquis de La Fayette lors de la révolution américaine a été capital et déterminant, car sans lui en tant qu’officier supérieur dans l’armée continentale et son influence auprès de Louis XVI qu’il réussit à convaincre de la nécessité que la France se devait d’apporté une aide militaire aux « Insurgés » des colonies anglaises d’Amérique la carte socio-politique du continent nord-américain ne serait certainement pas ce qu’elle est aujourd’hui.
Un engagement sans calcul pour la révolution américaine
Dès 1777, La Fayette s’engage auprès de Georges Washington et des « insurgés qu’il dirige. Il est rapidement nommé Major général dans l’armée américaine, il participe à de nombreuses batailles et fut même blessé à la jambe lors de celle de Brandywine.
En 1782, il est à Yorktown en Virginie et son intervention en tant que chef militaire combinée avec l’ensemble des troupes en action (armée continentale et corps expéditionnaire français) entraine la reddition du général Cornwallis qui commande les troupes anglaises.
En septembre 1783, le traité de Versailles consacre l’indépendance des États-Unis d’Amérique.
Invitation du Congrès des États-Unis
En 1824, le Congrès américain, à la demande du président Monroe, vote à l’unanimité une résolution ayant comme objet une invitation au Marquis de La Fayette qui est le dernier Major général toujours vivant de la révolution américaine, pour qu’il vienne visiter les États-Unis.
Il arrive à New York, le 15 août de la même année et pendant 14 mois, il se rend dans les principales villes des 24 états que compte alors le pays, fêtant même, la veille de son départ, ses 68 ans, à la Maison Blanche lors d’une grandiose réception donnée en compagnie du Président Adams.
Lors de cette visite triomphale, il reçoit, en reconnaissance de son engagement indéfectible à la guerre d’indépendance, mais aussi pour le dédommager financièrement des dépenses qu’il avait alors payées de sa poche, un don de 200 000 dollars et un domaine dans l’état de son choix.
Crédit: Historical Markers and Landmarks
LE « LAFAYETTE LAND GRANT » DE TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDE
Le marquis de La Fayette contrairement à beaucoup de ses contemporains décide non pas de choisir un domaine dans un des premiers états fondateurs des États-Unis mais dans un territoire nouvellement devenu américain en 1821, la Floride et tout précisément dans sa capitale Tallahassee située à mi-chemin entre Saint Augustine et Pensacola.
La Fayette charge alors son ami Richard Keith Call. Col. John McKee de l’Alabama de s’y rendre et de sélectionner une terre qui suivant la donation doit avoir les dimensions d’un carré de 6 miles (9.7km) de côté et une superficie d’environ 23 000 acres (9 400 hectares). La donation officiellement signée par le Président John Quincy Adams le 4 juillet 1825 se trouve alors dans le nord-est de la ville et comprend également le Lake Lafayette actuel.
Lafayette ne visitera jamais son domaine malgré l’invitation faite par William Pope Duval, le représentant du Conseil législatif de la Floride. Il en donne la gestion au colonel Robert White William, et fait venir de France un bon nombre de personnes pour développer le domaine. A l’époque, ces hommes et femmes sont appréciés pour leur courage, leur moralité, leur travail et sont reconnus comme de bon citoyens. Lafayette, qui est connu pour ses idées anti-esclavagiste et dont l’influence sur Georges Washington dans ce domaine est certaine, a comme idée d’y créer une exploitation sans esclave. Il cherche à y faire pousser des citronniers, des oliviers et à produire du fil de soie grâce aux cocons des vers à soie élevés directement dans les mûriers. Malheureusement c’est un échec et la plupart des personnes travaillant dans le domaine quittent les lieux pour aller à la Nouvelle Orléans ou retourner en France.
Démantèlement du domaine
Le Marquis de La Fayette décède en 1834. Peu de temps après sa mort le domaine est vendu par ses héritiers en petites parcelles, donnant naissance vers 1855 à un faubourg habité par un certain nombre d’anciens employés du domaine ayant décidé de rester sur place, mais surtout par une nouvelle population d’afro-Américains peu fortunés, exploitants des petites propriétés.
Pour la petite histoire il faut savoir qu’en 1850, Edmond La Fayette, neveu du marquis va offrir à la veuve du colonel William, en remerciement des bons et loyaux services de son défunt mari envers sa famille une horloge fabriquée en Autriche, la fameuse « Lafayette Clock », qu’il est toujours possible d’admirer dans les salons de la Florida Governor’s Mansion Foundation (700 North Adams Street, Tallahassee).
Aujourd’hui le « Frenchtown » et le « A.B. Maclay Park » sur le site de son domaine de Tallahassee, Floride
La fin du domaine du Marquis de La Fayette allait donnait dans le temps naissance à deux secteurs de la ville de Tallahassee avec des vocations tout à fait opposées.
Frenchtown
Le faubourg de Tallahassee créé par le morcellement du domaine de La Fayette connu au début sous le vocable de « Lafayette Grant », prit rapidement le nom de « Frenchtown » et connu une évolution peu enviable.
Après la guerre civile de nombreux esclaves libérés ont migré vers ce secteur où s’est développée une communauté majoritairement afro-américaine de classe moyenne souvent frappée par la pauvreté occasionnant le développement du trafic de l’alcool, de la drogue, de la prostitution et du crime. Il n’en fallait pas moins pour donner à ce quartier une réputation de ghetto.
Mais le Frenchtown n’était pas uniquement le quartier de la pègre, c’était aussi au début des années 1940 celui des cabarets avec de célèbres musiciens de jazz comme Ray Charles et les frères Adderley, Nat Adderley et Julian Edwin « Cannonball ».
Depuis le début des années 1950 et encore de nos jours, la Frenchtown se transforme grâce à de nombreux projets de revitalisation au niveau de ses infrastructures, de son développement immobilier et d’affaires. C’est l’un des plus vieux et historique quartier de Tallahassee et on ne peut qu’espérer que Frenchtown soit considéré comme un patrimoine à préserver et continue d’être amélioré.
Aujourd’hui une plaque commémorative marque le coin sud-ouest de l’ancien domaine Floridien ainsi que le Tallahassee Meridian qui trace plus ou moins la limite entre le Frenchtown et le campus de l’université de l’état de la Floride.
Alfred B. Maclay Gardens
En 1923, une partie couvrant une importante superficie de la partie la plus au nord de l’ancien domaine de La Fayette est acheté par le financier, Alfred B. Maclay, qui va y créer un jardin botanique reconnu pour sa beauté et qui, de nos jours, est classé dans les Gardens State Parks de la Floride. Il constitue avec le domaine entourant le Lake Hall un ensemble de loisirs ouvert au public connu sous le nom du A. B. Maclay Gardens Park. Pour plus de détails à son sujet, vous pouvez également lire dans ce numéro l’article qui lui est consacré.
Source : Vous pouvez aussi consulter sur internet les sites suivants qui ont permis de documenter le sujet traité dans cet article :
http://www.marquisdelafayette.net – http://www.f loridagoveriorsmansion.com –www.wikipedia.com
Article de Gérard Charpentier Ph. D., paru dans le Soleil de la Floride en Août 2013
Lafayette County, Florida
Lafayette County is a county located in the state of Florida. In the 2010 census, its population was 8,870. It is the second least populous county in the state, with a few hundred more residents than Liberty County. The county seat is Mayo. Lafayette County is a prohibition or entirely dry county.
History: Lafayette County was created on December 23, 1856, from part of Madison County. At the time it comprised all the area of present-day Lafayette and Dixie counties. The County was named in honor of the Marquis de Lafayette, the French general who rendered assistance to the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War. The famed Suwannee River forms the entire eastern boundary. The county courts first met at the home of Ariel Jones near Fayetteville. The county seat was New Troy until the court house burned down on New Year’s Eve, 1892. It was moved to Mayo in 1893, and Mayo is currently Lafayette’s only incorporated town. The moving of the courthouse was the end for New Troy. The Gainesville Sun states that houses were dismantled for their timber and bricks, hardwoods replaced the fields, steamboat traffic ended in 1899, and the ferry closed in 1917. In 1921 the lower part of the county was carved off to create Dixie County.
From Wikipedia / http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lafayette_County,_Florida
La Grange (a place in Brevard county)
LaGrange, Mims and Titusville are historic towns in northern Brevard County, Florida. Their old Florida histories stand in counterpoint to the modern programs at nearby Kennedy Space Center.
LaGrange is located in Brevard County, Florida between Mims and Titusville. It is commonly considered a part of Titusville, but was an earlier community, originally settled in 1852 The old settlement was primarily reached by the St. Johns River in the old days. There was a boat landing on Salt Lake to the west of town, and the lake was connected to the river. The community center in those days was the LaGrange Church.
From : http://www.florida-backroads-travel.com/lagrange-mims-titusville.html
Georgia
-Lafayette (a city) / Fayetteville (a city) / * La Grange / La Grange (a Populated Place in Troup County) /La Grange (Mountville).
-Fayette County
Illinois
-La Fayette (a village) / Fayetteville (a city) / Fayette / * La Grange (a Place in Brown County) /La Grange (a Place in Cook County) / La Grange (a Village) /
-Fayette Township (Livingston County)La Grange (Hodgkins; Mc Cook; La Grange Park; Sta #1), (World Of Beauty).
Indiana
-Lafayette (a city) / West Lafayette (part of the Lafayette Metropolitan Area) / Fayette (a city) / Fayetteville (a city)
-Lafayette (metropolitan area) / Fayette Township (Vigo County) / Fayette County
Iowa
-Fayette (a city)
-Fayette Township (Decatur County) / Fayette Township (Linn County) / Fayette County.
Kentucky
-Lafayette (a town) /* La Grange (a City) / La Grange (a Populated Place in Oldham County; location was named in year 1912) / La Grange (Ky State Reformatory).
-Fayette County (formerly in Virginia) / Lafayette High School à Lexington
Louisiana
-Lafayette (a city) /
-Lafayette (a metropolitan area) / Lafayette (a Parish) / University of Louisiana at Lafayette / Lafayette High School / Lafayette Square à New Orleans
Maine
-Fayette (a city)
Michigan
-Fayette (a city) / * La Grange (a Place in Cass County).
-Fayette Township / Fayette Historic State Park.
Minesota
-Lafayette (a city)
Mississippi
-Fayette (a city)
Missouri
-*La Grange (a City) / La Grange (a Populated Place in Lewis County) / La Grange.
-Lafayette High School, Wildwood,, Rockwood School District secondary school / Lafayette Park, / Lafayette Square, Saint Louis
New Hampshire
-Mount Lafayette
New York
-Lafayette (a town) / Fayette (a city) / Fayetteville (a city) /Fort Lafayette (a coastal fortification in the Narrows of New York Harbor)
-Lafayette High School (in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn of NY) / Lafayette High School, Buffalo, the oldest public school in Buffalo that remains in its original building) / Lafayette Square (Manhattan, NY).
North Carolina
-Fayetteville (a city with the greatest city population) /* La Grange (a Populated Place in Lenoir County) / La Grange (a Town) / La Grange
Ohio
-Lafayette (a village) / Fayette (a city) / Fayetteville (a city) / Lafayette (a census-designated place in Madison County).
-Fayette Township (Lawrence County) / Fayette County.
Oregon
-Lafayette (a city)
Pennsylvania
-Fayette City /Fayetteville (a city) / Lafayette Hill (small unincorporated community in Whitemarsh Township, Montgomery County) / * Havre de Grace.
-Fayette Township / Fayette County / Lafayette College, private coeducational college in Easton siège du American friends of Lafayette)
Rhode Island
-Lafayette Village (a historic district in North Kingstown, on the National Register of Historic Places)
South Carolina
DeBordieu (One of the oldest beachside communities in Georgetown County).
Tennessee
-Lafayette (a city) / Fayetteville (a city) / *La Grange (a Town) / La Grange.
-Fayette County
Texas
Fayetteville (a city) / *La Grange (a City) / La Grange (a Populated Place in Fayette County) / La Grange.
-Fayette County
Utah
-Fayette (a city)
Virginia
-Lafayette (a census-designated place)
-Lafayette Rive (entirely in the city of Norfolk) / Lafayette High School à Williamsburg
Washington DC
-Lafayette Park
West Virginia
-Fayette (a city) / Fayetteville (a city)
-Fayette County
Wisconsin
Lafayette (a Town in Chippewa County) / Lafayette (a town in Monroe County) / Lafayette ( a town in Walworth County) / Fayette (incorporated community) / *La Grange (a Town) / La Grange (a Place in Walworth County).
OTHER
1-Businesses and Buildings
-Galeries Lafayette, a French department store chain
-LaFayette Motors, United States automobile manufacturer from the 1910s to the 1940s
-Lafayette Radio Electronics, an electronics retail chain that closed in 1981
-Lafayette Building, four buildings in the United States
-Hotel Lafayette, Buffalo, New York, on the National Register of Historic Places
-Lafayette Theatre, three theatres in New York.
New York City Subway stations
-Lafayette Avenue (IND Fulton Street Line), Brooklyn
-Broadway – Lafayette Street (IND Sixth Avenue Line), Manhattan
-Lafayette, Louisiana, Amtrak train station
2-Military
-La Fayette (R96), formerly the USS Langley (CVL-27)
-La Fayette-class frigate, a class of French frigates
-La Fayette (F710), French stealth frigate, lead ship of the La Fayette class USS Lafayette, three US Navy ships
-Lafayette-class submarine, a class of US submarine
-Lafayette Escadrille, a World War I squadron of the French Air Service composed largely of American pilots
-Lafayette Flying Corps, a name given to American volunteer pilots who flew for the French in World War II
3-Fictional characters and other
-Lafayette, a Basset Hound in the animated films Aristocats and Aristocats
-Lafayette Reynolds, one of the principal characters in True Blood, an American TV series
-Lafayette O’Leary, the protagonist in four Keith Laumer science fiction novels
-Lafayette Bridge, spanning the Mississippi River in St. Paul, Minnesota
-La Fayette (film), also known as Lafayette, a 1961 French/Italian coproduction directed by Jean Dréville, with Orson Welles and Pascale Audret
-Lafayette Stakes, an annual American Thoroughred horse race in Lexington, Kentucky
-Lafayette transmitter, a former transmitter for transatlantic services near Bordeaux, France
-23244 Lafayette, a main-belt minor planet
-Lafayette meteorite, a nakhlite Martian meteorite
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Source: www.wikipedia.org
Alabama
La Fayette, Alabama, a city
Fayette, Alabama, a city
Fayetteville, Alabama, a city
Fayette County, Alabama
Arkansas
Fayetteville, Arkansas (a city with the greatest metro population)
Fayette Township, Calhoun County, Arkansas
*
La Grange, Arkansas.
California
Lafayette, California, a city
Lafayette Reservoir, Contra Costa County, California
Lafayette Hill is a former mining settlement, Nevada County, California
Lafayette Park, San Francisco, California
*
La Grange, California.
Colorado
Lafayette, Colorado, a Home Rule Municipality
Florida
Lafayette Heritage Trail Park, Tallahassee, Florida
*
La Grange, Florida, a Place in Brevard County.
Georgia
LaFayette, Georgia, a city
Fayetteville, Georgia, a city
Fayette County, Georgia
*
La Grange, Georgia.
La Grange, Georgia, a Populated Place in Troup County.
La Grange, Georgia (Mountville).
Illinois
La Fayette, Illinois, a village
Fayetteville, Illinois, a city
Fayette County, Illinois
Fayette Township, Livingston County, Illinois
*
La Grange, Illinois, a Place in Brown County.
La Grange, Illinoi, a Place in Cook County.
La Grange, Illinois, a Village.
La Grange, Illinois (Hodgkins; Mc Cook; La Grange Park; Sta #1), (World Of Beauty).
Indiana
Lafayette, Indiana metropolitan area
West Lafayette is part of the Lafayette, Indiana Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Lafayette, Indiana, a city
Fayette, Indiana, a city
Fayetteville, Indiana, a city
Fayette County, Indiana
Fayette Township, Vigo County, Indiana
Iowa
Fayette, Iowa, a city
Fayette County, Iowa
Fayette Township, Decatur County, Iowa
Fayette Township, Linn County, Iowa
Kentucky
LaFayette, Kentucky, a town
Fayette County, Kentucky (formerly in Virginia)
Lafayette High School, Lexington, Kentucky, public high school
*
La Grange, Kentucky, a City.
La Grange, Kentucky, a Populated Place in Oldham County; location was named in year 1912
La Grange, Kentucky (Ky State Reformatory).
Louisiana
Lafayette, Louisiana metropolitan area
Lafayette, Louisiana, a city
Lafayette Parish, Louisiana
University of Louisiana at Lafayette, undergraduate and graduate, residential institution
Lafayette High School, Lafayette, Louisiana
Lafayette Square, New Orleans, Louisiana
Maine
Fayette, Maine, a city
Michigan
Fayette, Michigan, a city
Fayette Township, Michigan
Fayette Historic State Park, Michigan
*
La Grange, Michigan, a Place] in Cass County.
Minesota
Lafayette, Minnesota, a city
Mississippi
Fayette, Mississippi, a city
Missouri
Lafayette High School, Wildwood, Missouri, Rockwood School District secondary school
Lafayette Park, Lafayette Square, Saint Louis, Missouri
*
La Grange, Missouri, a City.
La Grange, Missouri, a Populated Place in Lewis County.
La Grange, Missouri.
New Hampshire
Mount Lafayette, New Hampshire
New York
LaFayette, New York, a town
Fayette, New York, a city
Fayetteville, New York, a city
Lafayette High School (New York City), in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn
Lafayette High School, Buffalo, New York, the oldest public school in Buffalo that remains in its original building
Lafayette Square, New York/Manhattan, New York
Fort Lafayette, a coastal fortification in the Narrows of New York Harbor
North Carolina
Fayetteville, North Carolina (a city with the greatest city population)
*
La Grange, North Carolina, a Populated Place in Lenoir County.
La Grange, North Carolina, aTown.
La Grange, North Carolina.
Ohio
Lafayette, Ohio, a village
Fayette, Ohio, a city
Fayetteville, Ohio, a city
Lafayette, Madison County, Ohio, a census-designated place
Fayette County, Ohio
Fayette Township, Lawrence County, Ohio
Oregon
Lafayette, Oregon, a city
Pennsylvania
Fayette City, Pennsylvania
Fayetteville, Pennsylvania, a city
Fayette County, Pennsylvania
Fayette Township, Pennsylvania
Lafayette Hill, small unincorporated community in Whitemarsh Township, Montgomery County in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Lafayette College, private coeducational college in Easton, Pennsylvania
*
Havre de Grace, Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
Lafayette Village, a historic district in North Kingstown, Rhode Island; on the National Register of Historic Places
South Carolina
DeBordieu, South Carolina. One of the oldest beachside communities in Georgetown County.
Tennessee
Lafayette, Tennessee, a city
Fayetteville, Tennessee, a city
Fayette County, Tennessee
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La Grange, Tennessee, a Town.
La Grange, Tennessee.
Texas
Fayetteville, Texas, a city
Fayette County, Texas
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La Grange, Texas, a City.
La Grange, Texas, a Populated Place in Fayette County.
La Grange, Texas,
Utah
Fayette, Utah, a city
Virginia
Lafayette, Virginia, a census-designated place
Lafayette River, entirely in the city of Norfolk, Virginia
Lafayette High School, Williamsburg, Virginia, public secondary school
Washington DC
Lafayette Park, Washington DC
West Virginia
Fayette, West Virginia, a city
Fayetteville, West Virginia, a city
Fayette County, West Virginia
Wisconsin
Lafayette, Chippewa County, Wisconsin, a town
Lafayette, Monroe County, Wisconsin, a town
Lafayette, Walworth County, Wisconsin, a town
Fayette, Wisconsin (incorporated community)
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La Grange, Wisconsin, a Place in Walworth County.
Wyoming
La Grange, Wyoming, a Town.
OTHER
1-Businesses and Buildings
-Galeries Lafayette, a French department store chain
-LaFayette Motors, United States automobile manufacturer from the 1910s to the 1940s
-Lafayette Radio Electronics, an electronics retail chain that closed in 1981
-Lafayette Building, four buildings in the United States
-Hotel Lafayette, Buffalo, New York, on the National Register of Historic Places
-Lafayette Theatre, three theatres in New York.
New York City Subway stations
-Lafayette Avenue (IND Fulton Street Line), Brooklyn
-Broadway – Lafayette Street (IND Sixth Avenue Line), Manhattan
-Lafayette, Louisiana, Amtrak train station
2-Military
-La Fayette (R96), formerly the USS Langley (CVL-27)
-La Fayette-class frigate, a class of French frigates
-La Fayette (F710), French stealth frigate, lead ship of the La Fayette class USS Lafayette, three US Navy ships
-Lafayette-class submarine, a class of US submarine
-Lafayette Escadrille, a World War I squadron of the French Air Service composed largely of American pilots
-Lafayette Flying Corps, a name given to American volunteer pilots who flew for the French in World War II
3-Fictional characters and other
-Lafayette, a Basset Hound in the animated films Aristocats and Aristocats
-Lafayette Reynolds, one of the principal characters in True Blood, an American TV series
-Lafayette O’Leary, the protagonist in four Keith Laumer science fiction novels
-Lafayette Bridge, spanning the Mississippi River in St. Paul, Minnesota
-La Fayette (film), also known as Lafayette, a 1961 French/Italian coproduction directed by Jean Dréville, with Orson Welles and Pascale Audret
-Lafayette Stakes, an annual American Thoroughred horse race in Lexington, Kentucky
-Lafayette transmitter, a former transmitter for transatlantic services near Bordeaux, France
-23244 Lafayette, a main-belt minor planet
-Lafayette meteorite, a nakhlite Martian meteorite
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