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Jun 9, 2021 · 5. 195 views 2 years ago. Diane Shaw, Director Emerita of Special Collections & College Archives shares the dramatic and moving story of Lafayette’s wife, Adrienne de Noailles—a bride at...
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- Stew’s Introduction
- Meet Adrienne de Noailles and Her Family
- Adrienne, Meet Your New Husband
- The American Revolution
- The French Revolution and The Guillotine
- Exile, Imprisonment, and Napoléon
- Adrienne’s Later Years
- Meet Geri Walton
I’m very excited to have Geri Walton as our guest blogger today. Geri is an accomplished history author specializing in an era that corresponds to the English Georgian Era (more on that later). Her blog title concerns a woman who led an extraordinary life and was witness to some of the world’s leading events. It is also about a woman whose passion ...
One of the most interesting people buried at France’s Picpus Cemetery is Adrienne de Noailles (1759–1807), wife of the famous American Revolutionary War hero known simply as Lafayette (1757–1834). Adrienne was 14 years old when she married him. She was introduced to Lafayette through her father, a French nobleman named Jean de Noailles, Duke of Aye...
Around the time that Lafayette received his commission, Adrienne’s father was seeking husbands for his daughters. At the time, Louise was 13 and Adrienne 12. When the Duke of Ayen broached the subject with his wife, according to Adrienne, her mother was anguished and thought her girls too young for marriage. However, she decided to “throw herself i...
Lafayette became enamored with the American Revolutionary War and wanted to go to America to make a name for himself. He had inherited an extremely large sum of money, which was also one of the reasons that Adrienne’s mother had objected to him as a husband for Adrienne. However, his fortune allowed him to acquire and outfit a ship named the Victor...
After Lafayette’s return from America, he remained politically active. When the French Revolution broke out, Lafayette was in the thick of things again and eventually found himself imprisoned at Olmütz. During this time, Adrienne’s grandmother, mother, and sister Louise were arrested and guillotined on 22 July 1794. Adrienne was also arrested, but ...
Three months later, in April, to ensure her son’s safety, Adrienne wisely sent 16-year-old Georges Washington to America. She and her daughters then travelled to Vienna, and she requested that she and her daughters, Anastasie and Virginie, be allowed to share in her husband’s imprisonment. Adrienne’s request was granted, and they joined Lafayette a...
Besides being described as “a heroine whose dignity and resolution were as conspicuous as her gentleness,” Adrienne was also declared as being someone who possessed “rare devotion” and was a “flawless partner.” One newspaper printed the following: “Writing of her after her death the great patriot [Lafayette] praised her not so much for having sped ...
Geri Walton has long been interested in history and fascinated by the stories of people from the 1700 and 1800s. This led her to get a degree in history and resulted in her website, http://www.geriwalton.com/, which offers unique history stories from the 1700 and 1800s. Her first book, Marie Antoinettes’s Confidante: The Rise and Fall of the Prince...
Adrienne de Noailles de Lafayette, a remarkable woman, shared in the same liberal causes as her husband. She supported him wholeheartedly until her death in 1807. Especially interested in emancipating black slaves, they bought two South American slave plantations in Cayenne for the purpose of liberating the king's slaves and distributing the ...
views 2,198,269 updated. Lafayette, Marie Adrienne de (1760–1807) French marquise and wife of the American revolutionary hero, the marquis de Lafayette. Name variations: Adrienne de Noailles; Dame Marie Adrienne de Lafayette; Madame de Lafayette or La Fayette.
Apr 26, 2018 · April 26, 2018. The love of dashing Lafayette’s life was a beautiful and brilliant noblewoman named Marie Adrienne Françoise de Noailles (I know, it’s a bit of a mouthful.) Born in Paris, she and Lafayette were married on April 11, 1774—when she was only 14 and Lafayette 16. Two years later, their first child, Henriette, was born.
Adrienne de La Fayette. 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]
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280: Adrienne de Noailles La Fayette. La Fayette’s Wife (the famous Revolutionary War one—yes) Born: 2 November 1759, Paris, France. Died: 24 December 1807, Auvergne, France. Original Name: Marie Adrienne de Noailles. She was the Marquise de La Fayette. Adrienne and Gilbert married when she was fourteen and he was sixteen.
