1. Chavaniac

Description:

Photograph. A family estate and Lafayette's birthplace, occupied by Lafayette's aunt, Madame Chavaniac

Physical Location:

Arthur H. and Mary Marden Dean Lafayette Collection, Collection 4661 Box 165 Folder 1

2. "Articles de Mariage"

Description:

"Articles de Mariage" setting out the terms (primarily financial) of the sixteen-year-old Lafayette's marriage to Adrienne de Noailles, who was thirteen [Paris]

Date:

October 1772

Physical Location:

Arthur H. and Mary Marden Dean Lafayette Collection, Collection 4661 Box 10 Folder 44

3. Letter to George Washington

Description:

From Anastasie Louise Pauline de Lafayette, Lafayette's then six-year-old daughter, on the occasion of her father's third voyage to America [Paris]

Attribution:

La Tour-Maubourg, Anastasie du Motier de La Fayette, comtesse de, 1777-1863

Date:

June 18, 1784

Physical Location:

Arthur H. and Mary Marden Dean Lafayette Collection, Collection 4661

4. Letter to Philippe Beauchet

Description:

Philippe Beauchet was the Lafayettes' business agent and friend, introducing their plans to move to La Grange and pursue the agricultural life. Lafayette studied agriculture while in prison.

Attribution:

Madame Lafayette

Date:

ca. 1800

Physical Location:

Arthur H. and Mary Marden Dean Lafayette Collection, Collection 4661

5. Lafayette family portrait

Physical Location:

Arthur H. and Mary Marden Dean Lafayette Collection, Collection 4661

6. Marquis de Lafayette at La Grange

Description:

[Painted by Ary Scheffer ca. 1820-1832] Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University. Accession number 75.109.018.

Physical Location:

Arthur H. and Mary Marden Dean Lafayette Collection, Collection 4661

7. Pages from an account book summarizing Lafayette's agricultural "exploitation" of La Grange for the year 1828

Description:

Summary includes: 1) Lafayette describes and discusses the provenance of his farm machinery and livestock 2) Lafayette sets out the costs of feeding "des cochons a la piggery pendant .....1828."

Physical Location:

Arthur H. and Mary Marden Dean Lafayette Collection, Collection 4661

8. Excerpt from an early manuscript of Lafayette's Mémoires alluding to several love affairs

Description:

That paragraph has been scratched out in the manuscript and does not appear in the published version.

Physical Location:

Arthur H. and Mary Marden Dean Lafayette Collection, Collection 4661

9. Part of a listing (with prices) of all the accoutrements purchased for the funeral procession, services, and burial of General Lafayette

Date:

May 22, 1834

Physical Location:

Arthur H. and Mary Marden Dean Lafayette Collection, Collection 4661

10. Letter to Lafayette's son, George Washington Lafayette

Description:

Written upon receiving a copy of Lafayette's Memoires, and in which Cooper muses on the dissipation of American ideals since General Lafayette's heyday. Lafayette had died in 1834.

Attribution:

Cooper, James Fenimore

Date:

1839

Physical Location:

Arthur H. and Mary Marden Dean Lafayette Collection, Collection 4661

11. Saddler's bill for items purchased by Lafayette's son George

Date:

1845

Physical Location:

Arthur H. and Mary Marden Dean Lafayette Collection, Collection 4661