He was christened the next day and named after George Washington, the victorious commanding general of America's Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War.

Benjamin Franklin, John and Sarah Livingston Jay, and John and Abigail Adams[4] met there every Monday, where they dined with the La Fayette family and with the liberal nobility, including Stanislas Marie Adélaïde, comte de Clermont-Tonnerre, Madame de Staël, André Morellet, and Jean-François Marmontel.

On 22 July 1794, his great-grandmother, Catherine de Cossé, duchesse de Noailles, his grandmother, Henriette Anne Louise d'Aguesseau, duchesse d'Ayen, and aunt, Anne Jeanne Baptiste Louise, vicomtesse d'Ayen, were guillotined.

[5] On 15 October 1795, Georges' mother was sent to join his father and his sisters, Anastasie and Virginie, in the prison fortress of Olmütz.

[8] Since Georges was turned back at the French border as an exile, he stayed behind with his father, while his mother Adrienne returned to France.

After Napoleon's plebiscite, on 1st March 1800, he restored La Fayette's citizenship and removed their names from the émigrés list.

Together, they had three daughters and two sons: Lafayette and Tracy lived at their family estate LaGrange, outside Paris, where he spent the rest of his life until his death in 1849, at the age of 70.