Author: Mary MacDermot Crawford
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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Madame de Lafayette and Her Family
Author: Mary MacDermot Crawford
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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Publisher:
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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Madame de Lafayette and Her Family
Author: Mary MacDermot Crawford
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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Madame De Lafayette and Her Family
Author: Mary Macdermot Crawford
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781330037645
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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Excerpt from Madame De Lafayette and Her Family From the memoirs, real and fictitious, written in such profusion during the last days of Royal France, one is apt to form, in judging the character of the grande dame of that period, an erroneous estimate, and to forget that there existed other and nobler women than those celebrated for extravagance and intrigue: hundreds to whom the salons of Versailles were preferably terra incognita. Of this latter type was the wife of Lafayette. Aside from the prominent part she played, no woman of the Revolution possesses a more interesting personality than Adrienne de Noailles. "She was, wrote the Count de Segur, "a model of heroism. She was one of the few whose unsullied reputation received new lustre from the misfortunes of the Revolution." During the stormy days of the Terror the position of Mme. de Lafayette was one of extreme danger. Only the constant, frantic efforts of her friends and the repeated appeals of the American minister saved her from that tragic guillotine where, within the hour, mother, sister, and grandmother perished. Young and enthusiastic, she encouraged in Lafayette those republican tendencies which, bitterly opposed by their relatives, cost them at a later date so dearly. Stifling her heartache, she sped the husband on that hazardous voyage across distant seas to aid the great cause of liberty in far-off America - a land, as her quaint letters to Washington show, she always loved and longed to visit. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781330037645
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Excerpt from Madame De Lafayette and Her Family From the memoirs, real and fictitious, written in such profusion during the last days of Royal France, one is apt to form, in judging the character of the grande dame of that period, an erroneous estimate, and to forget that there existed other and nobler women than those celebrated for extravagance and intrigue: hundreds to whom the salons of Versailles were preferably terra incognita. Of this latter type was the wife of Lafayette. Aside from the prominent part she played, no woman of the Revolution possesses a more interesting personality than Adrienne de Noailles. "She was, wrote the Count de Segur, "a model of heroism. She was one of the few whose unsullied reputation received new lustre from the misfortunes of the Revolution." During the stormy days of the Terror the position of Mme. de Lafayette was one of extreme danger. Only the constant, frantic efforts of her friends and the repeated appeals of the American minister saved her from that tragic guillotine where, within the hour, mother, sister, and grandmother perished. Young and enthusiastic, she encouraged in Lafayette those republican tendencies which, bitterly opposed by their relatives, cost them at a later date so dearly. Stifling her heartache, she sped the husband on that hazardous voyage across distant seas to aid the great cause of liberty in far-off America - a land, as her quaint letters to Washington show, she always loved and longed to visit. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Life of Madame de Lafayette
Author: Virginie du Motier de La Fayette marquise de Lasteyrie du Saillant
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Languages : en
Pages : 476
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Languages : en
Pages : 476
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Letters of Madame de Sévigné to Her Daughter and Her Friends
Author: Marie de Rabutin-Chantal marquise de Sévigné
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Category : Authors, French
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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Category : Authors, French
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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Memoirs of General Lafayette
Author: Samuel Lorenzo Knapp
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Languages : en
Pages : 278
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Languages : en
Pages : 278
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Adopted Son
Author: David A. Clary
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553383450
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
A critical analysis of the unique friendship between American general George Washington and the young French Marquis de Lafayette describes how their bond resulted in extraordinary success on the battlefield and in diplomatic circles, aided an American victory in the Revolutionary War, and paved the way for the French Revolution. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553383450
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
A critical analysis of the unique friendship between American general George Washington and the young French Marquis de Lafayette describes how their bond resulted in extraordinary success on the battlefield and in diplomatic circles, aided an American victory in the Revolutionary War, and paved the way for the French Revolution. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.
Memoirs of General Lafayette. With an account of his visit to America and of his reception by the people of the United States, etc
Author: Marie Joseph Paul Roche Yves Gilbert DU MOTIER (Marquis de La Fayette.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 280
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Languages : en
Pages : 280
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Madame de Lafayette and "La Princesse de Clèves."
Author: Janet Raitt
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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Life of General Lafayette
Author: Bayard Tuckerman
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 282
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 282
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