Quotes by Lafayette For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries. Cesare Pavese lafayette doe history There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate. —MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE Michelle Moran lafayette rights natural Lafayette saw himself as the protector of royalty; they [the king and his family] considered him its gaoler. William Doyle lafayette saws kings