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"We go to America, Ségur, Noailles, Lafayette, and we fight. We fight for Washington. We fight for liberty." "Et pour la gloire." "Sans oublier l'honneur." "Et pour tuer les Anglais!"

THÉODORE PELLERIN as GILBERT DU MOTIER, THE MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE

EVERY LAFAYETTE SCENE, 5/? ✧ 1x01, FRANKLIN (2024)

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"Américain?" "Yes—oui." "Alors nous serons amis."

THÉODORE PELLERIN as GILBERT DU MOTIER, THE MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE

EVERY LAFAYETTE SCENE, 1/? ✧ 1x01, FRANKLIN (2024)

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ok today finally adobe found my Photoshop was cracked lol. Seriusly? In the middle of commissions and school projects? XD,well now I use Medibang Paint this is a little software test. Any advice? what software do you use?

the Lafayette multiverse is not complete without this one too

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"Why do you have so many names?" "Comment?" "Names. Joseph, Paul—names." "Oui, oui. Alors. So many before me, they make dead in battle. And so ma mère, she want me have protection of heaven. And so, Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier." "What do I call you then?" "Gilbert."

THÉODORE PELLERIN as GILBERT DU MOTIER, THE MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE

EVERY LAFAYETTE SCENE, 2/? ✧ 1x01, FRANKLIN (2024)

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I. Am. Backkkkkk

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I've been obsessively reading "Alexander Hamilton" by Ron Chernow and I just wanna say...Since Washington thought he was too old to learn French, my headcanon is that Lafayette and Hamilton talked in French when they didn't want Washington to know what they're talking about...✨️gossip sessions✨️

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Throwback ⭐️ !!!!

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I did watch Hamilton live here in the Philippines, it was so good…it really did bring me back to 2016 🔥 (I FORGOR to post this on the same day I did on insta- holy crap it's been a while...Life can get rlly busy!1)

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"The gentlemen of England. They honored me with a bullet."

THÉODORE PELLERIN as GILBERT DU MOTIER THE MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE

EVERY LAFAYETTE SCENE, 13/? ✧ 1x03, FRANKLIN (2024)

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Hello! Me again I am officially a AFL member and also…I was scrolling through A03 and I had NO idea you wrote an accurate Fishkill fanfiction if you have written more on another account I would LOVE to read more of your amazing work! With love forever and always -Albie

Au Revior Mon Ami

Hello!

That was not me! But someone must have great taste in usernames on AO3 😎

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I think your absolutely amazing and would love to meet you at one of the American Friends of Lafayette group gatherings except because I live on the border of Canada and Wisconsin and can be a part of your organization so I would LOVE to come down and say hi!

We’d love to have you!! There are several events in NY this year on the AFL website, as it is the 200th anniversary of Lafayette returning to the US this year!

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ATTENTION FACT FINDERS!

I stumbled upon an anecdote after being contacted by a man with lineage tracing back to the Continental Army. There is a known story of Lafayette using his own sash to bind his leg at Brandywine, but this individual cited a story where his ancestor, William O’Dell, used his sash to bind a wound on Lafayette’s wrist. I corroborated this to some extent, but only as an anecdote in the DAR’s Lineage Book from 1911.

Has anyone else heard of this second stash story?

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'General Washington imprudently exposed himself to danger. After a long reconnaissance, he was overtaken by a storm, on a very dark night. He took shelter in a farmhouse, very close to the enemy, and, because of the unwillingness to change his mind, he remained there with General Greene and M. de Lafayette. But when he departed at dawn, he admitted that a single traitor could have betrayed him.'

Lafayette Papers, 1779 - Laf details his memory of Washington, himself, and Greene staying at the home of Robert Alexander, a loyalist.

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'Now, my dear General, that you are going to enjoy some ease and quiet, permit me to propose a plan to you which might become greatly beneficial to the black part of mankind. Let us unite in purchasing a small estate where we may try the experiment to free the Negroes and use them only as tenants. Such an example as yours might render it a general practice, and if we succeed in America, I will cheerfully devote a part of my time to render the method fashionable in the West Indies. If it be a wild scheme, I had rather be mad this way than to be thought wise in the other task.'

Lafayette In America - The Close of the American Revolution - Spain and the Peace by Louis Gottschalk, pg. 402. This 'scheme' of his was his first major attempt at emancipation efforts. Washington, clearly, did not pursue the matter further.

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Wherever he [Lafayette] went, he found the fandango and the rosary, but rarely a beautiful woman. One lady with 'big black eyes and hair that trails along the ground' had once been a friend of the Vicomte de Noailles. Lafayette mentioned her several times in his letters to Poix. But, though he wrote amusingly enough about the amorous escapades of his friends in Cadiz, he remained, as he put it, 'tranquilly in my savagery.' He claimed no credit for his good behavior, however. Except for the beauty with black eyes, a baronne still younger and prettier, and an English lady less beautiful than kind, 'there isn't a woman here whose acquaintance is worth having.'

-- Lafayette In America - The Close of the American Revolution - Franklin's Aide by Louis Gottschalk, pg. 395. Lafayette engaged in what modern minds would consider frat boy behavior while stopped in Cadiz, Spain.

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'The meannesses [sic] of the public of which you tell me make me almost sorry that we have not already sailed. I prefer to think that that public is a small number of little cliques. The more extensive public--the public in another sense--has honored me with its good will. In the society-public, on the contrary, some persons honor me with their jealousy. But why do they torment my angelic friend? Is that the penalty for her perfection? Or is she to blame if they make trouble for her in order to hurt me in the most painful way? That would show discernment in them, for I admit that nothing in the world could distress me more.'

-- Lafayette to Poix, December 6, 1782. The 'angelic friend' referred to here is Aglaé de Hunolstein, his mistress. Rumors of their affair spread around the time he was returning to America.

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...Adrienne had all along observed (in her daughter's phrase) 'an exalted delicacy which removed from her any suspicion of jealousy, or at least of the petty actions which ordinarily follow therefrom.' But Aglaé's mother was shocked, and those who had some reason to be jealous of Lafayette had shown no delicacy. His private affairs had become public property, and the public relished them.

-- Lafayette In America - The Close of the American Revolution - Franklin's Aide by Louis Gottschalk, pg. 392. Adrienne's longsuffering highlighted here.