Marquis de Lafayette Monument - View this location on map Memorial to Marquis Gilbert de Lafayette, volunteer for American independence and Major General in the Continental army; bronze statue on carved marble pedestal, surrounded by figural groups of other French military commanders in the Revolutionary War; commissioned by Congress, completed 1891; Jean Alexandre Joseph Falquière and Marius Jean Antonin Mercie, sculptors; Paul Pujol, architect. Pennsylvania Avenue and Madison Place, NW, Washington , DC Historical

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