Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier Lafayette papers, 1786-1825 [manuscript].

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Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier Lafayette papers, 1786-1825 [manuscript].

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A letter, 1791, from Lafayette to Jean Sylvain Bailly, mayor of Paris, on behalf of a friend; a brief note, undated in the third person from Lafayette to a Mister Rogers; a contemporary handwritten version of remarks by Lafayette in Raleigh, N.C., 1825; and three photoprints of items, two dated 1786, relating to Lafayette and a Mr. MacQueen in Paris.

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Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834

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Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette was born at Chavaniac, Auvergne, in 1757, to an old, illustrious family of the provincial and military nobility. He lost both his parents early: his father was killed by the British at the Battle of Minden when Lafayette was two years old (1759), and when he was thirteen and attending the prestigious Collège de Plessis in Paris both his mother and grandfather died (1770). The latter's death left Lafayette with a si...

Bailly, Jean-Sylvain, 1736-1793

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Bailly was a scientist and astronomer who served in the French Revolutionary government and as mayor of Paris before being guillotined. From the description of [Documents] (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 156790260 ...