Letter to the Committee of General Safety (Department of the Haute- Loire, District of Brioude) [manuscript], 1794 October 17.

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Letter to the Committee of General Safety (Department of the Haute- Loire, District of Brioude) [manuscript], 1794 October 17.

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Madame de Lafayette appeals to the Committee for justice, maintaining that there was no motive for her arrest and that her certificate of good citzenship proves her innocence. She requests deportation to the United States and mentions in a marginal note the execution of her grandmother, mother and sister the previous July.

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Lafayette, Marie Adrienne de Noailles, marquise de, 1759-1807

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Born Marie Adrienne Françoise de Noailles; married the marquis de Lafayette (1757-1834) in 1774. Although they were influential supporters of the new French republic, the Lafayettes opposed the extremists who came to power in 1792. While her husband was forced into exile, the marquise was imprisoned twice. After her second arrest in October 1793, George Washington intervened in her case, but she was not released until 1795. From the description of ALS : Brioude, France, to a repres...

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