Written on behalf of Lafayette Gardens Apartments - Lafayette Louisiana Apartments Life at Parc Lafayette: Shopping, Dining & Services Just Steps from Lafayette Gardens Apartments A little history: Lafayette was founded in 1821 by French-speaking Acadian Jean Mouton and renamed in 1884 for General Lafayette, the French military hero who helped the American Army during the Revolutionary War. Once powered by agriculture, the area transformed in the 1940s when the petroleum and