"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
Localisation Physique:
Arthur H. and Mary Marden Dean Lafayette Collection, Collection 4661 Box 10 Folder 44
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
Localisation Physique:
Arthur H. and Mary Marden Dean Lafayette Collection, Collection 4661
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."
Localisation Physique:
Arthur H. and Mary Marden Dean Lafayette Collection, Collection 4661
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
Localisation Physique:
Arthur H. and Mary Marden Dean Lafayette Collection, Collection 4661
