Digital Facsimiles Family and Private Life 11 éléments

Over 10,000 items comprise the Arthur H. and Mary Marden Dean Lafayette Collection. A sampling of sixty images and documents have been digitized and are presented in this web site, organized into seven thematic categories.

Browse items in the "Family and Private Life" category below.

1. Chavaniac

Description:: Photograph. A family estate and Lafayette's birthplace, occupied by Lafayette's aunt, Madame Chavaniac

2. "Articles de Mariage"

Description:: "Articles de Mariage" setting out the terms (primarily financial) of the sixteen-year-old Lafayette's marriage to Adrienne de Noailles, who was thirteen [Paris]
Date:: October 1772

3. Letter to George Washington

Description:: From Anastasie Louise Pauline de Lafayette, Lafayette's then six-year-old daughter, on the occasion of her father's third voyage to America [Paris]
Attribution:: La Tour-Maubourg, Anastasie du Motier de La Fayette, comtesse de, 1777-1863
Date:: June 18, 1784

4. Letter to Philippe Beauchet

Description:: Philippe Beauchet was the Lafayettes' business agent and friend, introducing their plans to move to La Grange and pursue the agricultural life. Lafayette studied agriculture while in prison.
Attribution:: Madame Lafayette
Date:: ca. 1800

5. Lafayette family portrait

6. Marquis de Lafayette at La Grange

Description:: [Painted by Ary Scheffer ca. 1820-1832] Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University. Accession number 75.109.018.

7. Pages from an account book summarizing Lafayette's agricultural "exploitation" of La Grange for the year 1828

Description:: Summary includes: 1) Lafayette describes and discusses the provenance of his farm machinery and livestock 2) Lafayette sets out the costs of feeding "des cochons a la piggery pendant .....1828."

8. Excerpt from an early manuscript of Lafayette's Mémoires alluding to several love affairs

Description:: That paragraph has been scratched out in the manuscript and does not appear in the published version.

9. Part of a listing (with prices) of all the accoutrements purchased for the funeral procession, services, and burial of General Lafayette

Date:: May 22, 1834

10. Letter to Lafayette's son, George Washington Lafayette

Description:: Written upon receiving a copy of Lafayette's Memoires, and in which Cooper muses on the dissipation of American ideals since General Lafayette's heyday. Lafayette had died in 1834.
Attribution:: Cooper, James Fenimore
Date:: 1839

11. Saddler's bill for items purchased by Lafayette's son George

Date:: 1845

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