film
la fayette (La Fayette)
with
Michel LE ROYER, Pascale AUDRET, Jack HAWKINS, Folco LULLI, Wolfgang PREISS, Liselotte PULVER, Edmund PURDOM, Georges RIVIÈRE, Rosana SCHIAFFINO, Howard ST. JOHN, Vittorio DE SICA, Orson WELLES
Synopsis :
In 1776, young Marquis de La Fayette weds the daughter of the Duke d'Ayen, Adrienne. Sympathetic to the rebellion of the colonists in the United States, La Fayette meets Silas Deane in Paris. He was sent by the rebels' Constitutional Convention and then by Franklin himself. Won over to their cause, he takes leave of the Royal Army and departs to fight in America.