Digital Facsimiles The French Revolution (1789-1799) 7 items

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 "The French Revolution (1789-1799)" category below.

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

Physical Location:: Arthur H. and Mary Marden Dean Lafayette Collection, Collection 4661 Box 167 Item 15

2. Anti-Lafayette political cartoon

Description:: Satirical scene portraying Lafayette bearing a candle on his head
Physical Location:: Arthur H. and Mary Marden Dean Lafayette Collection, Collection 4661 Box 184 Item 8

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
Physical Location:: Arthur H. and Mary Marden Dean Lafayette Collection, Collection 4661 Box 18 Folder 6

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
Physical Location:: Arthur H. and Mary Marden Dean Lafayette Collection, Collection 4661 Box 10 Folder 26

5. The Lafayette family in Austrian prison

Description:: Engraving. Lafayette's wife and all their children except George joined him in prison in 1795.
Physical Location:: Arthur H. and Mary Marden Dean Lafayette Collection, Collection 4661 Box 164 Item 28

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
Physical Location:: Arthur H. and Mary Marden Dean Lafayette Collection, Collection 4661 Box 6 Folder 16

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
Physical Location:: Arthur H. and Mary Marden Dean Lafayette Collection, Collection 4661

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