1. Cartoon depicting heads of key figures, including Lafayette, in the French Revolution

2. Anti-Lafayette political cartoon

Description:

Satirical scene portraying Lafayette bearing a candle on his head

3. Letter to William Short

Description:

Written from prison in Coblentz

Attribution:

Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834

Date:

September 16, 1792

4. Document concerning restrictions on the movements of M. de Tessa, M. de Mun, and Madame Montagu

Description:

They were all friends or acquaintances of Lafayette, who was himself in prison at this time. Frybourg [Saxony]

Date:

July 26, 1794

5. The Lafayette family in Austrian prison

Description:

Engraving. Lafayette's wife and all their children except George joined him in prison in 1795.

6. "Note relative ma fortune personelle"

Description:

Lafayette outlines how his considerable fortune was exhausted in the service of the American and French Revolutions.

Date:

ca. 1800

7. Broadside from the General Assembly of Petit Saint-Antoine entrusting Lafayette with the task of keeping order in Paris

Description:

Lafayette had questioned the validity of a previous vote in his favor because taken in the midst of extreme civil unrest

Date:

July 21, 1789