|Major General Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau|
|Location||Lafayette Square (Washington, D.C.), Northwest, Washington, D.C.|
|Owner||National Park Service|
Statue of the Comte de Rochambeau
|Area||less than one acre|
|Part of||American Revolution Statuary|
|NRHP reference No.||78000256|
|Added to NRHP||July 14, 1978|
Major General Comte Jean de Rochambeau is a bronze statue by Fernand Hamar which honors Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, a French nobleman and general who played a major role in helping the Thirteen Colonies win independence during the American Revolution.
It is located in Lafayette Park, Washington, D.C. President Theodore Roosevelt dedicated the statue on May 24, 1902.
The inscription reads:
FONDU PARLE PAL D'OSNE 58 RUE VOLTAIRE
(Sculpture of Liberty, front near base:)
(Base, north face:)
We have been
in the cause
and we have lived
as brothers should do
in harmonious friendship
WASHINGTON TO ROCHAMBEAU
February 1, 1784
(Base, north face, bottom:)
BY THE CONGRESS
MAY XXIV MDCCCCII
(Base, front below sculpture of Rochambeau:)
A copy of the statue exists in Paris at the Place Rochambeau.
As part of the American Revolution Statuary in Washington, D.C. the statue is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.