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nordleuchten · 3 months

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Ah, Tumblr. Why would they hide my question from you🥲? Here is the rather long question that I wanted to ask.

I've been wondering about Lafayette's interactions with his in-laws—not the Noailles, but his children's. What did he think about his sons-in-law? Did they get along? How did the marriages take place, or anything related to them?

I'm currently in the very long process of writing a novel about Adrienne, now entering the French Revolution, still having a long way to go before any of the Lafayette kids get married. But my God, the French Revolution is stressful as hell to write☹️. I just want my girl to get some rest… And so, I guess I just want to skip ahead to the lighthearted part. While Adrienne’s thoughts and interactions are pretty much all in Virginie’s book, and maybe some in her sister’s memoirs, Mister Lafayette’s is a bit confusing for me because he has so much information from all different sources. (Which brings me to my next question: What book do you recommend for referencing information about Gilbert? It’s too stressful to always go from one source to another for him.😭)

The information on this blog has been immensely helpful! I would have been lost as to where to find the sources that I needed. hope you have a good day, and hold on to your historical passion! 👍☺️

Dear @daydream-247,

first of all, that sounds like a very interesting project! When you come around to publishing something, I would absolutely love to read it! And thank you for your kind word, it is always nice to hear that other people can take something away from what I post and are not annoyed by me. :-)

As to the partners of his children, La Fayette had a very good relationship with all of them. I am actually quite happy that you asked about that part of the family, since this topic is quite dear to my heart. I think there is not enough talk about that – as it is with so many things in La Fayette’s life that have nothing to do with Revolutions and America. The La Fayette’s and their family and friends were so tight nit, so intimate and loving. La Fayette – and also Adrienne, while she was still alive, loved being grand-parents and in La Fayette’s case later great-grandparents. While their children were able to go their own ways in live, they and their families always remained very close to their parents. The children’s marriages were happy ones – not without personal tragedy of course, but they all weathered the challenges thrown at them. To the best of my knowledge, there were no affairs, mistresses, and betrayals in that generation.

But enough of me being fascinated by family dynamics, lets us get to your question! La Fayette wrote on December 1, 1802 to James Madison:

I Live in an Agreable place, About forty Miles from paris. My Children are With me. Georges Has Married the daughter of Tracy whom Mr. Jefferson Has known in the Constituent Assembly and Who is One of His Warmest Admirers. My Elder daughter is the Wife of Charles La tour Maubourg the Youngest Brother of My Olmutz Companion and Has two Lovely Little Girls. My daughter in Law is Within a few Months to Encrease Our family. Georges is Now at turin Where the 11th Rgt of Huzzards Has its Quarters. Virginia, My Younger daughter, will, I think, Be Married Before Long.

“To James Madison from Lafayette, 1 December 1802,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-04-02-0176. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 4, 8 October 1802 – 15 May 1803, ed. Mary A. Hackett, J. C. A. Stagg, Jeanne Kerr Cross, Susan Holbrook Perdue, and Ellen J. Barber. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998, pp. 166–170.] (01/25/2024)

La Fayette was right concerning Virginie. She married on April 20, 1803. She would probably have married sooner, but La Fayette slipped on the icy pavement that winter and broke his femur close to the hip bone – an injury that is no laughing matter, neither in the 21st nor in the early 19th century. The wedding was postponed, giving La Fayette time to recover.

Let us now have a closer look at the marriages and resulting families of each of Adrienne’s and La Fayette’s children. Anastasie, their oldest surviving child, was the first one to marry. She married Juste-Charles de Faÿ de la Tour-Maubourg. Charles was the younger brother of Marie-Charles-César de Faÿ, comte de la Tour-Maubourg. César was one of La Fayette’s dearest friends. Do you remember this heartbreaking letter La Fayette wrote after Adrienne’s death? That letter was addressed to César, and I have never again seen La Fayette lay his soul and emotions so open – not even in front of Washington.

Charles was for a very, very short time imprisoned as well but quickly freed. After all the prisoners of Olmütz were set free, they settled at Wittmold and were reunited with their respected families. It was there that Anastasie met – or at least fell in love with, Charles. They were married on Mai 8, 1798 in the private chapel in Wittmold by the Abbé Luchet (and oh this blasted certificate of marriage! One day, one day …) They soon started their own family, and it was here that tragedy struck. While both of their twin daughters survived the birth, one died only a few weeks later. Sadly, the little girl is often forgotten and not at all mentioned when La Fayette’s grandchildren are discussed. I will not say much about the grandchildren here in general because firstly, this post would get even longer than it already is (I am so sorry!) and secondly, I have a post in the making going through all of the grandchildren and possible some great-grandchildren – including the ones that died young or were stillborn/miscarried. I feel they should not be left out. Anastasie lost at least two, if not more children and Georges lost at least one daughter. So, different topic for a different post if you do not mind.

What is interesting about Anastasie’s marriage – especially her Noailles relatives appeared to be less than enthusiastic about the match. Anastasie’s aunt, the Marquise de Montague wrote in her own memoirs:

Frau von La Fayette fand die Parthie nicht allein sehr angemessen, sondern auch wie man damals das Recht hatte zu hoffen, sehr vortheilhaft. Der General war von ganzem Herzen damit einverstanden. In Witmold aber schrie man laut dagegen, wie nur das Projekt zur Sprache kam. Herr von Mun behauptete nur bei den Wilden Amerika‘s könne man sich so verheirathen, und Frau von Tessé bestand darauf, man hätte seit Adam und Eva nichts Gleiches gesehen. Die Sarkasmen nüßten Nichts, Frau von La Fayette hielt sich fest, und als Alles unwiderruflich entschieden war, sah man, wie sich die Unzufriedenheit der Frau von Tessé in eine zärtliche und liebenswürdige Sorgsamkeit auflöste.

Marquise of Montague, Anna Pauline Dominika von Noailles, Marquise von Montague – Ein Lebensbild, Münster, Aschendorff, 1871, p. 204.

My translation:

Madame de La Fayette not only thought the match very appropriate, but also, as one had the right to hope at the time, very advantageous. The General was wholeheartedly in favour of it. In Witmold, however, they protested loudly against it as soon as the project was brought up. Mr von Mun [I have no idea who he was] claimed that only among the savages of America one could marry in this way, and Madame de Tessé insisted that nothing like it had been seen since Adam and Eve. The sarcasm was of no avail, Madame La Fayette held her ground, and when everything was irrevocably decided, Mademe de Tessé’s dissatisfaction dissolved into a tender and amiable diligence.

As you see, Adrienne’s and La Fayette’s primary concern was the happiness of their daughter. La Fayette wrote on May 20, 1798 to George Washington:

We Have spent the winter in Holstein, on danish territory, in a Hired Country Seat about Sixty English miles from Hamburgh—My friend Latour Maubourg and His family were with us—we had visits from france and other Countries—(…). Here My eldest daughter Anastasie was Married to Charles Maubourg my friends’ Youngest Brother.

“To George Washington from Lafayette, 20 May 1798,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/06-02-02-0213. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Retirement Series, vol. 2, 2 January 1798 – 15 September 1798, ed. W. W. Abbot. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998, pp. 282–285.] (01/25/2024)

I am honestly not quite sure what the problem here was. Since the Noailles part of the family voiced their criticism, the problem seems to lay primarily with Charles. The critics very much still belonged to the “arranged-marriage-for the advancement-of-the-family” generation and I suppose that was the issue. The marriage was not arranged and both the La Fayette’s and the La Tour-Maubourg’s were “ruined” during the French Revolution. There was not much for both parties to expect – beside a happy marriage based on mutual love and affection.

La Fayette at once started to include his new son-in-law in his letter:

My wife, my daughters, my Son in law Beg the tender Homage of their Affection, Gratitude and Respect to Be presented to you, my dear General, and to Mrs Washington (…)

The next one to marry was Georges. He married Françoise Émilie Destutt de Tracy. Just like with his older sister’s husband, there was already a connection between La Fayette and his new in-laws. Émilie’s father, Antoine Louis Claude Destutt de Tracy, was one of La Fayette’s oldest friends. They became friends prior to the French Revolution and both later served in the Chambre des Deputes and had similar political views, they both opposed Napoléon’s rise to power.

Based on his writings alone, Émilie might have been La Fayette’s favourite. He wrote to Thomas Jefferson on January 20, 1802:

My Son Has Returned to His Regiment in Italy—I Expect Him in the Spring, and probably to Marry a Very Amiable daughter to the Senator tracy Whom You Have known as a patriot Member of the Constituent Assembly

“To Thomas Jefferson from Lafayette, 30 January 1802,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-36-02-0305. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 36, 1 December 1801–3 March 1802, ed. Barbara B. Oberg. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009, pp. 480–481.] (01/25/2024)

He reported on November 1, 1802, again to Thomas Jefferson:

With me they Now Are Retired into the State of Rural Life Where I am fixed Among the Comforts of An United Loving family—it Has Been, Encreased, as I Did in time inform You, By the Happy Acquisition of an Amiable Daughter in Law (…)

“To Thomas Jefferson from Lafayette, 1 November 1802,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-38-02-0551. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 38, 1 July–12 November 1802, ed. Barbara B. Oberg. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011, pp. 616–617.] (01/25/2024)

He wrote on August 18, 1800 to his friend Masclet:

My whole family is now collected at this place, where my aunt had been for many years despairing ever to see us. It has been also for me a great satisfaction to present to her my beloved daughter-in-law Emilie Tracy, now the wife of the happy George, and in whom I find every amiable quality my heart could wish for. I intend conducting the young couple back to Auteuil towards the middle of Fructidor, my return there being hastened by the news of the intended journey wherein General Fitzpatrick and Charles Fox are to meet at Paris.

Jules Germain Cloquet, Recollections of the Private Life of General Lafayette, Baldwin and Cradock, London, 1835, p. 110.

Here is what La Fayette wrote about Émilie to Thomas Jefferson on February 21, 1825, right after the death of her mother:

We intend to Come again from Boston to Newyork, Philadelphia, Washington and to pay you a Visit at Monticello Before we Embark By the Middle of August for france Where We Are Recalled, Sooner than We Expected, By the most lamentable death of mde de tracy george’s Mother in law. I Have urged My Son to Return immediately But His generous wife, who is a tender daughter to me, Had on the first moment of the loss, adjured Him not to leave me, and it is a Great Motive for Me to Make as much Haste As We Can With propriety do it.

“To Thomas Jefferson from Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, 21 February 1825,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/98-01-02-4986. [This is an Early Access document from The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series. It is not an authoritative final version.] (01/25/2024)

La Fayette wrote much about Émilie and all that he wrote was very positive. What he wrote about his sons-in-law was different – not to say that there was less affection, but it was, at least on paper, expressed differently. Now, why was that? It could be for personal reasons, La Fayette simply “clicked” better with Émilie. It could be because Émilie spend much more time with and around La Fayette than his sons-in-law did. It could be because, by social convention, you would and could write differently about your daughter-in-law then about your sons-in-law. Lastly, and that is just a hunch of mine, Émilie, as a woman, was the one to bear the children. For La Fayette children were definitely in the female domain – not because he necessarily thought that childbirth should be a women’s only purpose but because I think he understood and valued that the birth of a child was the result of a great deal of pain and work on the women’s side and a, while biological important, negatable part on the man’s part. In short, I like to imagine that the thanked and valued Émilie for her hard work in making him a grandfather.

La Fayette addressed and described Émilie as his daughter, he wrote about having “three daughters” (to James Madison, August 28, 1826). While the same sentiment was definitely present in the relationships with his sons-in-law, I think he never put it quite that distinctly to paper. But enough about Émilie, let us move on to the last couple.

As I have already mentioned Virginie married Louis de Lasteyrie du Saillant, Marquis de Lasteyrie on April 20, 1803. I believe that Louis was a nephew of a friend of La Fayette but I would need to check that again. Louis died quite young, aged 46 in 1826 and he was buried on the ground reserved for the La Fayette family on the Picpus Cemetery. He was buried there after Adrienne and before La Fayette.

Things were looking pretty good on the domestic front for La Fayette. Within five years, all of his children were happily married and two of them had already little families of their own. What was probably most important, despite her failing health, Adrienne saw all three of her surviving children marry.

In letters to his friends, particular to Thomas Jefferson, La Fayette never forgot to give updates not only about himself but also about his children and their families. He often asked for them to be remembered to people just like he wanted to be remembered. He gave also updates on the military careers of his sons-in-law. Louis entered the Light Dragoons in 1804, leaving the army as a Colonel. Charles and George often served in closely related positions. They both realized that being attached to La Fayette would make advancement in the army difficult and so both of them left the army eventually. Neither of them seemed to hold any grudges.

That much in “short”. Now, as to books – the unsatisfactory answer is: It depends? Are you looking for a general overview, an overview about a specific topic, a political analyses, a character analysis, something critical, a personal account, something contemporary or something that was written much later, a collection of anecdotes to flesh out La Fayette’s character? There are sources for all of this, but they all serve different purposes.

I hope I could help you out and give you a starting point for your research. A chapter about the love lives of Anastasie, Georges and Virginie could definitely serve as a little cheer-up chapter between the French Revolution and Adrienne’s death – both for the readers and your characters. Happy writing and I hope you have/had a lovely day!

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kwilooo · 2 months

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Is it just me or does the age difference between George Washington and Marquis de Lafayette kind of disturb me when I think of their relationship? Like, they were very close, and most likely in a father-son sort, but I’ve also read some of their letters that seem…romantically aligned?

He was 45 I believe when Alexander Hamilton was 20, and Lafayette was just a few months younger than him.

That is like, a 25 year age difference. I get that that was pretty normal back then, but with today’s society I can’t shake it off.

Not that it really matters much since they’re all dead :)

#marie joseph paul yves roch gilbert du mortier de la fayette marquis de lafayette #marquis de lafayette #George Washington #alexander hamilton

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kimtiny · 4 months

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People that lived I know about

#history #historical fan art #lol #pt barnum #james bailey #george washington #marquis de la fayette #abraham lincoln #william h seward

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rushpush · 6 months

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I have sometimes a random Headcanon, that Washington teached his aides or La Fayette to dance and I just can’t get rid of it!

#please Tell me that I remember correctly that the French boy embarrassed himself as teen while dancing #I swear I read that somewhere #amrev #george washington #amrev history #historical #alexander hamilton #la fayette #marquis de lafayette #dancing #independence war #I imagine cute embarrassment and hurting foots #and I imagine aides dancing with each other to practice

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enbylestat · 8 months

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Fan fiction research is fun!

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Link to slides.

Further reading.

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aaronjhill · 2 years

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PRINCE WILLIAM HENRY, LAFAYETTE, AND THE CAUSE OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE I am learning what I can about Prince William Henry, brother of King George III. William Henry was sympathetic to the American cause during the Revolutionary War. He apparently encouraged the Marquis de La Fayette to fight alongside the colonists in America. “In his late teens Lafayette became enamored with the cause of American independence. At a dinner he attended, Lafayette heard the Duke of Gloucester, a brother of England’s King George III, share his strong opposition to the English treatment of American colonists. It seems from that point, Lafayette developed a consuming desire to see the American colonists achieve their independence.” And the rest is history. What George III knew about this and his brother’s views aren’t clear. Is it treason? Would the king pursue this if he had known? I wonder who else was at that dinner. I will see what I can find to answer these questions.

#King George III #Britain #UK #Revolutionary War #America #American colonists #Lafayette #Prince William Henry #First Duke of Gloucester #Marquis de La Fayette #France #George Washington #American independence #history

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verilyproductions · 20 days

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Facts about Lafayette that prove he’s a legend

First of all, his full name is: Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier de La Fayette, Marquis de La Fayette

Bro was LOADED! He was the richest orphan in France. Pretty much all his relatives died, leaving him with 120,000 livres as an income.

In 1777 Lafayette asked Loui XVI if he could go fight for freedom in America, the king said no but Lafayette went anyway, he was 19 at the time! He had to leave the country illegally the some accounts say that he dressed as a pregnant woman to do so. (But this could just be a rumour)

He was shot in the leg during battle (still in 1777) and didn’t notice until AFTER the battle! Washington has to forcibly send him home, but he did this with orders for the doctor to ‘treat him like a (Washington’s) son’.

After the Battle of Monmouth Laf sat with George Washington under a tree and the two fell asleep.

He named his only son after George Washington.

Lafayette gifted young John Quincy Adams an Alligator. This is the reason there has been an alligator in the White House bathroom. It had been given to Lafayette by an admirer and he gifted it on since he couldn’t take it to France with him.

He was nicknamed ‘The Hero Of Two Worlds’ because he fought for American and French freedom.

#marquis de lafayette #american history #french history #hamilton #Gilbert Lafayette #ref is Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow and google

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yr-obedt-cicero · 1 year

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“John Bradstreet, the eldest son, to whom the estate of Saratoga was given, had married Elizabeth Van Rensselaer, the sister of the Patroon Stephen, the husband of Margaret Schuyler. His married life was brief. He died a few years after, leaving a boy, Philip, to be the representative of the name. This boy was sent to the Hamiltons', and with young Cortland Schuyler and the Hamilton boys went to Bishop Moore's school for boys on Staten Island, returning to New York Friday even- ings to spend Sundays with the Hamiltons.”

(source — Catherine Schuyler, by Mary Gay Humphreys Pg. 229)

Bradstreet died in the August of 1795, which was the same year Lafayette's son, Georges Washington Louis Gilbert de La Fayette, lived with the Hamilton's for a few months. Not to mention Frances Antill, an orphan from Hamilton's old war friend, was also still living with the Hamilton's.

So, you're telling me; Elizabeth and Hamilton were wrangling around from Philadelphia, to Albany, and New York with ten kids?

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odnagnisul · 1 year

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100 livres à avoir lu dans sa vie (entre autres):

1984, George Orwell ✅

A la croisée des mondes, Philip Pullman

Agnès Grey, Agnès Bronte ✅

Alice au Pays des merveilles, Lewis Carroll ✅

Angélique marquise des anges, Anne Golon

Anna Karenine, Léon Tolstoï

A Rebours, Joris-Karl Huysmans

Au bonheur des dames, Émile Zola

Avec vue sur l'Arno, E.M Forster

Autant en emporte le vent, Margaret Mitchell

Barry Lyndon, William Makepeace Thackeray

Belle du Seigneur, Albert Cohen

Blonde, Joyce Carol Oates

Bonjour tristesse, Françoise Sagan ✅

Cent ans de solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Charlie et la chocolaterie, Roald Dahl ✅

Chéri, Colette

Crime et Châtiment, Féodor Dostoïevski

De grandes espérances, Charles Dickens

Des fleurs pour Algernon, Daniel Keyes

Des souris et des hommes, John Steinbeck ✅

Dix petits nègres, Agatha Christie ✅

Docteur Jekyll et Mister Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson ✅

Don Quichotte, Miguel Cervantés

Dracula, Bram Stocker ✅

Du côté de chez Swann, Marcel Proust

Dune, Frank Herbert ✅

Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury ✅

Fondation, Isaac Asimov

Frankenstein, Mary Shelley ✅

Gatsby le magnifique, Francis Scott Fitzgerald ✅

Harry Potter à l'école des sorciers, J.K Rowling

Home, Toni Morrison

Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte

Kafka sur le rivage, Haruki Murakami

L'adieu aux armes, Ernest Hemingway ✅

L'affaire Jane Eyre, Jasper Fforde

L'appel de la forêt, Jack London ✅

L'attrape-cœur, J. D. Salinger ✅

L'écume des jours, Boris Vian

L'étranger, Albert Camus ✅

L'insoutenable légèreté de l'être, Milan Kundera

La condition humaine, André Malraux

La dame aux camélias, Alexandre Dumas Fils

La dame en blanc, Wilkie Collins

La gloire de mon père, Marcel Pagnol

La ligne verte, Stephen King ✅

La nuit des temps, René Barjavel

La Princesse de Clèves, Mme de La Fayette ✅

La Route, Cormac McCarthy ✅

Le chien des Baskerville, Arthur Conan Doyle

Le cœur cousu, Carole Martinez

Le comte de Monte-Cristo, Alexandre Dumas : tome 1 et 2

Le dernier jour d'un condamné, Victor Hugo ✅

Le fantôme de l'opéra, Gaston Leroux

Le lièvre de Vaatanen, Arto Paasilinna

Le maître et Marguerite, Mikhaïl Boulgakov

Le meilleur des mondes, Aldous Huxley

Le nom de la rose, Umberto Eco

Le parfum, Patrick Süskind

Le portrait de Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde ✅

Le Petit Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery ✅

Le père Goriot, Honoré de Balzac ✅

Le prophète, Khalil Gibran ✅

Le rapport de Brodeck, Philippe Claudel

Le rouge et le noir, Stendhal ✅

Le Seigneur des anneaux, J.R Tolkien ✅

Le temps de l'innocence, Edith Wharton

Le vieux qui lisait des romans d'amour, Luis Sepulveda ✅

Les Chroniques de Narnia, CS Lewis

Les Hauts de Hurle-Vent, Emily Brontë

Les liaisons dangereuses, Choderlos de Laclos ✅

Les Malaussène, Daniel Pennac ✅

Les mémoires d'une jeune fille rangée, Simone de

Beauvoir

Les mystères d'Udolfo, Ann Radcliff

Les piliers de la Terre, Ken Follett : tome 1

Les quatre filles du Docteur March, Louisa May

Alcott

Les racines du ciel, Romain Gary

Lettre d'une inconnue, Stefan Zweig ✅

Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert ✅

Millenium, Larson Stieg ✅

Miss Charity, Marie-Aude Murail

Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf

Ne tirez pas sur l'oiseau moqueur, Harper Lee ✅

Nord et Sud, Elisabeth Gaskell

Orgueil et Préjugés, Jane Austen

Pastorale américaine, Philip Roth

Peter Pan, James Matthew Barrie

Pilgrim, Timothy Findley

Rebecca, Daphne Du Maurier

Robinson Crusoé, Daniel Defoe ✅

Rouge Brésil, Jean Christophe Ruffin

Sa majesté des mouches, William Goldwin ✅

Tess d'Uberville, Thomas Hardy

Tous les matins du monde, Pascal Quignard

Un roi sans divertissement, Jean Giono

Une prière pour Owen, John Irving

Une Vie, Guy de Maupassant

Vent d'est, vent d'ouest, Pearl Buck

Voyage au bout de la nuit, Louis-Ferdinand Céline ✅

Total : 37/100

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acrossthewavesoftime · 2 years

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Please recommend me some more accounts like yours :)

Eſsteem'd Anon,

Thank you for the compliment! I am happy you like my account, and are looking for more content like mine.

Which raises the question, what is my account? Perhaps you could clarify which type of content in particular you're interested in, because I feel that, rather than coordinated, my blog is all over the place. Are you here for my occasional pictures from pretty places? My posts about a certain naval gentleman of the 18th century? Stuart memes? The Flight of the Heron, or the novels of Marjorie Bowen? The odd talk about my fiction writing?

Given I am but a magpie who just adds whatever shiny thing (mostly tinfoil, I fear) she has found to her humble online-nest, I feel my blog is not coordinated enough to give a clear reply.

If it's predominantly European and/or North American history of roughly the 17th to early 19th century you're looking for, here are my recs, ascending by era:

@nellgwynn (lots of humourous Stuart-centric content) @vankeppel (the Stuarts, the British generals and loyalists of the American Revolutionary War, Arctic exploration) @nordleuchten (American Revolutionary War and French history of the early 19th century, an authority on the Marquis de La Fayette and George IV; also the host of @pitt-able, concerning William Pitt the Younger) @pentecostwaite and @benjhawkins (local maritime history of Maine, and working at a local history museum/historic house) @anarchist-mariner (commentary on the Rebellion of 1798, political history in the British Isles in the late 18th/early 19th century) @clove-pinks/ @marryat92: (War of 1812, various aspects of 19th century life, and the novels of Captain Frederick Marryat)

I hope this helps!

I am, &c. -R.

#ask #ask reply #anon #recs #blog recs #history

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withinycu · 11 months

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@somnium-delicata is all yours

Years before when she and her husband had been children themselves, they had a daughter, Henriette. To them, young and naive, she had been perfect. They had been like Perceval and Blanchefleur and just like in the story he had left her for grand adventures and noble deeds. She had not begrudged him that and defended him to her father and mother until she wept with rage.

Their life would of course be a fairy tale but not a gentle one. Henriette would be their first trial. It had been lonely to mourn alone for both of them. Her Gilbert, her chevalier was an orphan at heart, a little boy with an antique musket stalking the woods determined to protect his own from the Beast of Gévaudan but somehow losing everyone to a beast no musket could scare away.

When he had first described Henri, he had reminded her of that boy. I think if we were to have a son, dear heart, that he would be not unlike this boy, he had later written. He is stubborn and impulsive as I know myself to be but he has your dark eyes and hair.

They had a son now, Georges Washington Louis Gilbert de La Fayette, but he was an infant of only four small years who looked just like his father. Even if his heart and mind would reveal itself to be just like his mother.

But they hadn’t forgotten their first born or the boy who had in a strange way comforted them both. When Gilbert suggested the boy return with him, Adrienne had made up a room and asked only what size clothes he wore.

Now he was here and she wanted to weep with joy and the sense of something lost being found. But I do not want him to think he is wanted, that I cry because I am upset.

She reached out both hands to him. “I feel I have waited so very long to meet you,” She said her mouth stretching into a very genuine smile. “I hope you come to think of this as your home.”

#somniumdelicata #somniumdelicata {henri}#dear heart {adrienne de la fayette}

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nordleuchten · 8 months

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Joyeux Anniversaire!

The château was burnt, and afterwards re-constructed in 1701, as recorded in an inscription still visible on its walls. Lafayette was born there on the 6th September, 1757. It would be gratifying to discover about the place some object that might serve as a memento of his early years, but M. George himself has never been able even to ascertain in what apartment of the château his father first saw the light. No external souvenir of the General’s infancy exists there, except a portrait of him, taken at the age of nine or ten years.

Jules Germain Cloquet, Recollections of the Private Life of General Lafayette, Baldwin and Cradock, London, 1835, p. 246.

(The portrait above is probably not the one mentioned in the text, but it was painted roughly around the same time and is the oldest one I know about.)

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Who is the worst? Round 1: Edmund Randolph vs Marquis de Lafayette

Edmund Jennings Randolph (August 10, 1753 – September 12, 1813) was a Founding Father of the United States, attorney, and the 7th Governor of Virginia. As a delegate from Virginia, he attended the Constitutional Convention and helped to create the national constitution while serving on its Committee of Detail. He was appointed the first United States Attorney General by George Washington and subsequently served as the second Secretary of State during the Washington administration.

A scandal involving an intercepted French message led to Randolph's resignation as Secretary of State in August 1795. Randolph had been tasked with maintaining friendly relations with France. The British Navy had intercepted correspondence from the French minister Joseph Fauchet to his superiors and turned it over to Washington, who was dismayed that the letters reflected contempt for the United States and that Randolph had been primarily responsible. The letters implied that Randolph had exposed the inner debates in the cabinet to France and had told it that the administration was hostile to the country. At the very least, Elkins and McKitrick conclude, there "was something here profoundly disreputable to the government's good faith and character."

While residing in Pennsylvania, the 6-month residency deadline for [his slaves] approached. Attorney General Edmund Randolph's slaves had obtained their freedom under the 1780 law, and Randolph was advising Washington (through Lear's letters) on how to prevent the eight [slaves] from similarly obtaining theirs.

Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette (6 September 1757 – 20 May 1834), known in the United States as Lafayette, was a French aristocrat, freemason and military officer who fought in the American Revolutionary War, commanding American troops in several battles, including the siege of Yorktown. After returning to France, he was a key figure in the French Revolution of 1789 and the July Revolution of 1830. He has been considered a national hero in both countries.

After the storming of the Bastille, he was appointed commander-in-chief of France's National Guard and tried to steer a middle course through the years of revolution. In August 1792, radical factions ordered his arrest, and he fled into the Austrian Netherlands. He was captured by Austrian troops and spent more than five years in prison.

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Pups of liberty was good, but La Fayette as a pup would make it better

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The Legendary Galeries Lafayette

Galeries Lafayette Haussmann is a major Parisian retailer located on boulevard Haussmann in the 9th district. It is the most spacious department store in Europe and the second largest in the world after Macy's Herald Square. With sales of 1.8 billion euros in 2014, it has overtaken Harrods in London, Bloomingdale's in New York and Isetan in Tokyo to reclaim its position as the world's leading department store in terms of sales. It is part of the "Grands Magasins" branch of the Galeries Lafayette Group.

Galeries Lafayette attracts an average of 37 million visitors a year, or more than 100,000 customers a day, across the store's four interlinked venues (Coupole, L'Homme, Maison and Gourmet).

The store is served by the Chaussée d'Antin - La Fayette and Havre - Caumartin metro stations, and by the Auber RER A station. Saint-Lazare station is also nearby.

In 1893, Théophile Bader and Alphonse Kahn, two cousins from Alsace, teamed up to take over a novelty shop.

The pair launched Les Galeries Lafayette on the corner of rue La Fayette and rue de la Chaussée-d'Antin in 1894, over forty years after Le Bon Marché. The store is ideally placed near the Opéra Garnier, the Grands Boulevards and the Saint-Lazare train station. The store soon attracted office workers and the middle and lower middle classes.

The Company bought the whole of 1, rue La Fayette in 1896 and, in 1903, the buildings at 38, 40 and 42, boulevard Haussmann, as well as 15, rue de la Chaussée-d'Antin. Georges Chedanne and then Ferdinand Chanut were in charge of furnishing these new purchases. On October 8, 1912, the huge Art Nouveau dome is inaugurated (Art Nouveau is an artistic movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries founded on the aesthetics of curved lines).

Every Achievement Leads to Another !

In 1900, the "Aux Galeries Lafayette" trademark was registered.

In 1908, Lafayette opened its first store on Boulevard Haussmann.

In October 1912, bigger store was inaugurated. It featured 96 departments, a tea room, a library and a hairdressing salon. It had five floors, balconies and a large cupola.

The roof at the peak of the building overlooks Paris and its new Eiffel Tower. The shop windows themselves take on an important role in this decor: they must inspire every desire and mood. It's all about ensuring that shoppers get to feel good and feel compelled to shop.

Fashion and innovation were the watchwords of the store. The trend towards the democratization of fashion was taking hold, and success was in the air. Thus, the store began to diversify its range, adding men's fashion, home furnishings, toys and tableware to its traditional departments.

The Key Years of the Galleries

Various promotional initiatives were undertaken, such as the visit of Édith Piaf, who agreed to come and sing in 1950. In the years from 1952 to 1956, the first escalators were fitted, the interior halls were removed and two storeys were added. In 1969, a brand new store, dedicated to men's fashion, was commissioned on the other side of Rue de Mogador. In 1974, the main staircase was removed and, in 1984, the central first floor was redesigned to allow the opening of prestige boutiques. In 1980, the department store further strengthened its focus on fashion with the creation of the highly successful Festival de la Mode. In 1996, Galeries Lafayette celebrated its 100th anniversary. To honor the milestone, a number of major brands reissued one of their classics. 2010 marked the opening of a Bordeauxthèque, the largest Bordeaux wine cellar in the world (1,500 references). Between 2019 and 2021, the surface area devoted to cafés and restaurants in the department store grows by 20%. Nowadays, the store is constantly evolving and modernizing. Chinese customers are now Galeries Lafayette Haussmann's biggest foreign clientele, ahead of Americans and Japanese.

Written by Houda Belabd for Medium.com

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