The Hermione, 17 years in the making, replicates the original wartime frigate that ferried the Marquis ... of the family (an ancestor helped found Newport, Rhode Island), Chatel de Brancion ...

Two centuries after his death, the descendants of the notorious Marquis de Sade have finally embraced their once-reviled relative. The French aristocrat scandalised his contemporaries with his ...

Woody Allen said “80% of success is in showing up.” French nobleman Marquis de Lafayette, showed up in 1777 and brought ...

(WJTV) – In 1825, the Marquis ... And when Lafayette was in Natchez, he brought a cane as a gift to Governor Walter Leake. And that cane stayed in Governor Walter Leake’s family.