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Marquis de Lafayette
Marquis de Lafayette, chromolithograph by P.S. Duval, 1851.
In December 1791, the Marquis de Lafayette was appointed commander of the army at Metz. He accepted this position with the hope of suppressing radical democrats following the outbreak of the French Revolutionary Wars against Austria in April 1792.1