Marie-Josef, marquis de Lafayette

FW travelled to America for the second time, in the company of her sister and following the marquis de Lafayette .

The second part is devoted to France. MDF laments the ancien regime as she sees it, a collection of evils produced by Catholicism : slavery, despotism, the Bastille, and the Inquisition . She identifies...

EW begins by contradicting the charge that Dumourier is a republican. She insists how urgently France had needed reform before it was caught up in revolution. She lays the blame on the French nobility (contrasting...

AB may be the author of a poem published anonymously by Mundell in 1800, Epistle from the Marquis de LaFayette to General Washington.

She vividly evokes her own childhood and its context (though she does not give her parents' names), then tangentially describes in great detail the imprisonment, condemning, and guillotining of three Noailles ladies during the French...

Heineman cites a recently discovered letter in which FT writes of her expectations: I expect to be very happy, and very free from care at Nashoba —and this will more than repay me for being...

AO 's admiration for military heroes also extended to Kosciusko and later to the Duke of Wellington and General Lafayette . In other respects, however, she fully shared the anti-war stance of her fellow Quakers.

Habitués of her salon included Lafayette , Condorcet , Narbonne , Talleyrand , and Thomas Jefferson . In the following months she conspired with others to attempt the escape from revolutionary hands of aristocratic...

In the revolutionary turmoil unfolding in Paris, EW was arrested in the middle of the night under a warrant issued by Lafayette .

After she procured letters of introduction from General Lafayette , FT found herself invited to better homes, though her own accounts attest that relationships forged with many Americans were often uneasy.

On her return to Paris after Robespierre's death, HMW and Stone lived in a house (where she held her salon) on the Quai Malaquais. After peace was announced between England and France in 1801...

The Parisian scientific community warmly welcomed MS on the basis of her translation of Laplace's Méchanique Céleste. As well as renewing contact with many of the scientific figures she had encountered on her previous...

On her first visit to Paris, she met Germaine de Staël , and formed lasting friendships with the marquise de Villette (Voltaire 's adopted daughter) and with Elizabeth Patterson (an American heiress, the abandoned...

In 1813 she again met de Staël (who was visiting London) and introduced her to Elizabeth Inchbald . Others she met after her husband's death included Richard Brinsley Sheridan , Byron , and Sir Walter Scott

While in Paris, they were invited to spend time at the country estate La Grange, owned by General Lafayette , who had fought during the French Revolution.FT reportedly made an excellent...