"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]
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.
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."
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.
