General Lafayette Memorial -- The Lady Looking Up At Lafayette
by Cora Wandel
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General Lafayette Memorial -- The Lady Looking Up At Lafayette
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Cora Wandel
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Photograph
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This bare-breasted woman is on the base of the Major General Marquis Gilbert de Lafayette Memorial in Lafayette Square across the street from the White House in Washington, DC. Above the woman at the top of the memorial is a statue of Lafayette. She is reaching up to Lafayette to offer him a sword.
Lafayette was a French-born aristocrat and military officer born in 1757, and came to America to serve in the Revolutionary War. He became a major-general under George Washington in the Continental Army. Among his Revolutionary War accomplishments, he served and was wounded in the Battle of Brandywine, but despite his wounds he led the Continental Army to victory in that battle. Lafayette also led his men to an impressive victory in the Battle of Rhode Island. Even though Lafayette would become an American citizen, when he died in 1834 he was buried in his native homeland of France, under soil from Washington's grave at Mount Vernon.
The bronze statue of Lafayette, which is not visible in this photograph, and the clearly visible woman with a sword in her hand, along with other statues built on all four side of the base, was were made by Jean Alexandre Joseph Falguiere in 1890, and has been on the southeast corner of Lafayette Square since 1891.
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November 28th, 2016
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