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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
Localisation Physique:
Arthur H. and Mary Marden Dean Lafayette Collection, Collection 4661 Box 165 Folder 1

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

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
Localisation Physique:
Arthur H. and Mary Marden Dean Lafayette Collection, Collection 4661

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
Localisation Physique:
Arthur H. and Mary Marden Dean Lafayette Collection, Collection 4661

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.
Localisation Physique:
Arthur H. and Mary Marden Dean Lafayette Collection, Collection 4661

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
Localisation Physique:
Arthur H. and Mary Marden Dean Lafayette Collection, Collection 4661
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