Adrienne de La Fayette explained

Adrienne de Noailles
Marquise de La Fayette
Birth Date:	2 November 1759
Birth Place:	Hôtel de Noailles, Paris, Kingdom of France
Death Place:	Auvergne, France
Father:	Jean de Noailles
Mother:	Henriette Anne Louise d'Aguesseau
Issue:	Henriette du Motier Anastasie Louise Pauline du Motier Georges Washington Louis Gilbert du Motier Marie Antoinette Virginie du Motier
Religion:	Roman Catholicism

Marie Adrienne Françoise de Noailles, Marquise de La Fayette (2 November 1759 – 25 December 1807), was a French marchioness. She was the daughter of Jean de Noailles and Henriette Anne Louise d'Aguesseau.^[1] In 1774, she married Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, who left France in 1776 to volunteer in the American Revolutionary War where he served under General George Washington, then later became a key figure in the French Revolution of 1789.

Early life and family

They had four children: Henriette du Motier (15 December 1775 – 3 October 1777), Anastasie Louise Pauline du Motier (1 July 1777 – 24 February 1863), Georges Washington Louis Gilbert du Motier, (24 December 1779 – 29 November 1849), and Marie Antoinette Virginie du Motier (17 September 1782 – 23 July 1849).

She was a great-granddaughter of Françoise Charlotte d'Aubigné, niece of Madame de Maintenon.^{[2] [3]}

Imprisonment and planned execution

In 1795, the Marquise de LaFayette was imprisoned and facing execution. Elizabeth Monroe, a future First Lady of the United States and wife to James Monroe, the United States envoy to France, intervened in an attempt to save her. The day prior to La Fayette's scheduled execution, Mrs. Monroe visited the imprisoned marquise and loudly announced that she would be returning the following day. Not wanting to endanger ties with the United States, France abruptly reversed its verdict and did not execute her.

References

• Baker . James Wesley . 1977 . The Imprisonment of Lafayette . 28 . 4 . American Heritage . 1–4 .
• Web site: Burton . June K. . January 26, 2001 . Two "Better Halves" in the Worst of Times – Adrienne Noailles Lafayette (1759–1807) and Fanny Burney d'Arblay (1752–1840) as Medical and Surgical Patients under the First Empire . 18 February 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160313064953/http://www.clevelandmemory.org/lafayette/documents/pdf/burton.pdf . 13 March 2016 . dead .
• Book: Chaffanjon, Arnaud . Arnaud Chaffanjon . 1976 . La Fayette et sa descendance . Berger Levraud.
• La Fayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de . 16 . 65–67 .
• Book: Cloquet, Jules Hippolite . 1835 . Recollections of the Private Life of General Lafayette: Embellished with Numerous Engravings as in the Original Paris Edition . Baldwin . 227 .
• Book: Crawford, Mary MacDermot . 1907 . Madame de Lafayette and Her Family. J. Pot & Company . 11, 165–166 .
• Book: Crawford, Mary MacDermot . 1908 . The Wife of Lafayette . E. Nash . 297 .
• Book: Griffith, Thomas Waters . 1898 . My Scrap-book of the French Revolution . Latimer . Elizabeth Wormeley . A. C. McClurg . 393 .
• Book: Guilhou, Marquerite . 1918 . Life of Adrienne D'Ayen: Marquise de La Fayette . R. F. Seymour . Adrienne de La Fayette. .
• Book: Kaminsky, John . 2005 . A Necessary Evil?: Slavery and the Debate of the Constitution . Rowman & Littlefield . 0-945612-33-8 .
• Book: Lamb . Martha . Pond. Nathan Gillett . 1881 . Stevens . John Austin . DeCosta . Benjamin Franklin . Johnston . Henry Phelps . The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries . A. S. Barnes. . 353–357 .
• Book: Maurois, André . 1961 . Adrienne: The Life of the Marquise de La Fayette . registration . Hopkins . Gerard . originally written in French
• Book: Miller, Melanie Randolph . Envoy to the Terror . .
• Book: Morris . Gouverneur . Morris . Anne Cary . 1888b . The Diary and Letters of Gouverneur Morris . C. Scribner's Sons . II .
• Book: Nelson, Paul David . 2005 . Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of Hastings: Soldier, Peer of the Realm, Governor-General of India. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 978-0-8386-4071-5 . 55 .
• Book: Roberts, Cokie . 2008 . Ladies of Liberty . William Morrow . 978-0-06-078234-4 . 327 . registration .
• Book: Senior, Nassau William . 1880 . Conversations with Distinguished Persons During the Second Empire . 21 .
• Book: Sichel, Edith Helen . 1900 . The Household of the Lafayettes . A. Constable . 71.
• Web site: Portraits / His friends: Francisque de Corcelle . Alexis de Tocqueville 1805 . 2005-10-15 . . 27 December 2016.
• Book: Unger, Harlow Giles . 2002 . Lafayette . John Wiley & Sons . 0-471-39432-7 .

Further reading

• Book: Gottschlk, Louis . 2007 . Lafayette Comes to America . Read Books . 978-1-4067-2793-7 . 27.
• Book: Lane, Jason . General and Madame de Lafayette: Partners in Liberty's Cause in the American and French Revolutions . Taylor Trade Publishing . 2003.
• Maurois, André (1961). Adrienne; ou, La vie de Madame de La Fayette. Hachette.
• Book: Morris . Gouverneur . Morris . Anne Cary . The Diary and Letters of Gouverneur Morris . C. Scribner's Sons . 1888 . I .
• News: Books: An 18th Century Marriage . https://web.archive.org/web/20071001214239/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,872507,00.html . dead . 1 October 2007 . Time . 26 May 1961 .

Collections

• Letter from Adrienne de Lafayette to her Children, The 17th Brumaire, November 1794
• John Jay letter to Adrienne Lafayette, 13 August 1785
• Gouverneur Morris letter to Adrienne Lafayette, 19 December 1796
• Lafayette Family Papers, University of Maryland
• National Museum of Women in the Arts
• Généalogie de Carné, Alain de Carné en novembre 2006
• Neil Jeffares, Dictionary of pastellists before 1800, Noailles Iconographical Genealogy
• The Marquis de Lafayette collection, Cleveland State University
• Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette Collection, Library of Congress

Notes and References

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