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How did the Marquis de Lafayette inherit his fortune?

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The Marquis de Lafayette was born into an ancient noble family in the Auvergne region of central France. Although he was orphaned in his early teens, he had already inherited an immense fortune by the time he married Adrienne de Noailles in 1774.1