Description
Equestrian statue of general Lafayette on the right bank of the Seine. Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier de La Fayette, Marquis de La Fayette (6 September 1757 – 20 May 1834), known in the United States as Lafayette, was a French aristocrat, freemason, and military officer who volunteered to join the Continental Army, led by General George Washington, in the American Revolutionary War. The statue was located in a court of the Louvre in Paris in 1908, and was a gift from five million American school children; as a matter of fact, it is therefore known as The Children’s Statue of Lafayette. It was later relocated on the right bank of the Seine, where it still stands today.
