Picpus Cemetery- La Fayette’s grave

Marie Joseph Paul Roch Yves Gilbert Mottier, Marquis de La Fayette, signed an agreement with Silas Deane in 1777, to serve as a general in the Continental Army. He obtained the title of Major General from the Continental Congress. He was one of the actors of the French American victory of Yorktown. Back in France, he was Commander of the National Guard during the French Revolution. He returned twice to the United States after the war and was made honorary citizen of the United States. He is buried next to his wife in the cemetery of Picpus. Every 4th of July, U.S. officials, members of the French Cincinnati Society and the French Sons of the American Revolution gather to remember La Fayette.