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 .

FW suffered a further bereavement (following the deaths of her sister and baby daughter) when her friend and mentor Lafayette died in Paris.

During her first Autumn in Paris, she met the marquis de Lafayette . This meeting was for her the realization of a youthful dream, and each was touched with the other's passion for human liberty...

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...

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

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...

She had discussed God with her grandmother as a child, but grew up caring only for the physical world, until she was seriously mistreated and began the search for God which led her to run...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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.

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