L a - b e a u t é - s a u v e r a - l e - m o n d e ~ D o s t o ï e v s k i

L a - b e a u t é - s a u v e r a - l e - m o n d e  ~  D o s t o ï e v s k i



Thursday, October 2, 2014

Portrait du général de La Fayette dans le parc du château de La Grange-Bléneau, by Louise-Adéone Drolling, 1830



The château de La Grange-Bléneau, in the Seine-et-Marne department, southeast of Paris, came to La Fayette through his marriage and was his home until his death.  It has been preserved as a monument historique.
 
The famous general, hero of the American Revolution, and key figure in the French revolutions of 1789 and 1830, was seventy-three when this portrait was painted; the embarrassingly red hair of his youth has become, at this late date, suspiciously black.






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  1. The Marquis de la Fayette inviting Benjamin Franklin

    http://www.nyhistory.org/sites/default/files/press/lr/45984_LafayetteInviteToFranklin.jpg


    Letter of de la Fayette's daughter to George Washington

    http://www.nyhistory.org/sites/default/files/press/hr/Lafayette%27s%20daughter%20to%20Washington%20-%20courtesy%20of%20Cornell.jpg

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