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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]
- 25 December 1807 (aged 48), Auvergne, France
- Henriette Anne Louise d'Aguesseau
Adrienne de Noailles was born in Paris in 1760, the second of five daughters of the Duke and Duchess d'Ayen. Five months past her 14th birthday, she married 16-year-old Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, a wealthy and titled orphan to whom she had been betrothed years earlier. A clause inserted in the marriage contract dictated that the ...
Jul 22, 2017 · Adrienne de Noailles was a French noblewoman who married the American Revolutionary War hero Lafayette in 1774. She supported his political activities and accompanied him to America, where he was arrested and guillotined during the French Revolution. She also faced the guillotine herself and died at Picpus Cemetery. Learn more about her life, family, and legacy from this guest blog by history author Geri Walton.
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. Together they purchased two South American plantations for the express purpose of freeing the slaves working them. They then distributed the land amongst ...
Marie Adrienne Françoise de Noailles, madame de La Fayette (2 November 1759 – 24 December 1807). She was born in Paris at the family home, the Hôtel de Noailles. [1] Known as Mademoiselle d'Ayen- she was the second daughter of the duc d'Ayen, a powerful French noble-prior to her marriage to Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette, in the ...
- Jean Louis, Duke of Noailles
- Gilbert, Marquis of La Fayette
- 24 December 1807 (aged 48), Rue d'Anjou, Paris, France
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Financial Contract of Lafayette’s Marriage to Adrienne de Noailles, 1772. [zoom] A marriage under the Old Regime was mostly about alliances and money. The deal between the Duke d’Ayen and Gilbert’s grandfather, the ultra-wealthy Comte de La Rivière, was kept secret until the girl was thirteen and the boy sixteen.
