Digital Facsimiles French Politics (1800-1834) 7 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 "French Politics (1800-1834)" category below.

1. Letter fragment to Thomas Jefferson

Description:: Discusses Napoleonic and other politics. [La Grange]
Attribution:: Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834
Date:: August 14, 1814

2. Letter to Lafayette's good friend princesse d'Hnin

Attribution:: Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834
Date:: 1815

3. Address to the Chamber of Deputies by members protesting its unconstitutional expulsion of Manuel

Description:: Signed by Lafayette and his son, among others. (Printed facsimile of holograph statement.) [Paris]
Date:: March 5, 1823

4. Letter to Lafayette

Description:: Analyzing the general's controversial decision to aid Louis-Philippe's accession to the throne during the "Glorious Revolution" [Montpelier]
Attribution:: Madison, James
Date:: December 12, 1830

5. Manuscript of an address on a question of political philosophy from the British Utilitarian Jeremy Bentham "to the French People"

Description:: Bentham corresponded with Lafayette on political questions. [Westminster/London]
Date:: August 1830

6. Letter from the Romantic novelist Mary Shelley, congratulating Lafayette on his part in the "Glorious Revolution"

Description:: [London]
Attribution:: Shelley, Mary
Date:: November 11, 1830

7. Extract from Lafayette's address to the electors of Meau, of 13 June, 1831 as it appeared in an American newspaper

Description:: Lafayette, now in his seventies, was up for re-election, and here reflects on the past and present political scene in France.

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