Adrienne de La Fayette

Adrienne de Noailles
Marquise de La Fayette
Born	(1759-11-02)2 November 1759 Hôtel de Noailles, Paris, Kingdom of France
Died	24 December 1807(1807-12-24) (aged 48) Auvergne, France
Spouse(s)	Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette ​ ​ (m. 1774)​
Issue	Henriette du Motier Anastasie Louise Pauline du Motier Georges Washington Louis Gilbert du Motier Marie Antoinette Virginie du Motier
Father	Jean de Noailles
Mother	Henriette Anne Louise d'Aguesseau

Marie Adrienne Françoise de Noailles, Marquise de La Fayette (2 November 1759 – 24 December 1807), was a French marchioness. She was the daughter of Jean de Noailles and Henriette Anne Louise d'Aguesseau, and married Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette.

Life

They had four children: Henriette du Motier (15 December 1775 – 3 October 1777), Anastasie Louise Pauline du Motier (1 July 1777 – 24 February 1863), Georges Washington Louis Gilbert du Motier, (24 December 1779 – 29 November 1849), and Marie Antoinette Virginie du Motier (17 September 1782 – 23 July 1849) She was a great-granddaughter of Françoise Charlotte d'Aubigné, niece of Madame de Maintenon.

In 1795, the Marquise Lafayette was imprisoned and about to be executed. Intervention by Elizabeth Monroe saved her. Mrs. Monroe visited the imprisoned marquise on the day before the execution and loudly announced she would come the next day. Not wanting to cut ties with then-diplomat James Monroe, France did not execute her.

References

• Baker, James Wesley (1977). "The Imprisonment of Lafayette". American Heritage. 28 (4): 1–4.
• Burton, June K. (26 January 2001). "Two "Better Halves" in the Worst of Times – Adrienne Noailles Lafayette (1759–1807) and Fanny Burney d'Arblay (1752–1840) as Medical and Surgical Patients under the First Empire" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 March 2016. Retrieved 18 February 2009.
• Chaffanjon, Arnaud (1976). La Fayette et sa descendance. Berger Levraud.
• Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "La Fayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 16 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 65–67.
• Cloquet, Jules Hippolite (1835). Recollections of the Private Life of General Lafayette: Embellished with Numerous Engravings as in the Original Paris Edition. Baldwin. p. 227.
• Crawford, Mary MacDermot (1907). Madame de Lafayette and Her Family. J. Pot & Company. pp. 11, 165–166.
• Crawford, Mary MacDermot (1908). The Wife of Lafayette. E. Nash. p. 297.
• Griffith, Thomas Waters (1898). Latimer, Elizabeth Wormeley (ed.). My Scrap-book of the French Revolution. A. C. McClurg. pp. 393.
• Guilhou, Marquerite (1918). Life of Adrienne D'Ayen: Marquise de La Fayette. R. F. Seymour. Adrienne de La Fayette.
• Kaminsky, John (2005). A Necessary Evil?: Slavery and the Debate of the Constitution. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 0-945612-33-8.
• Lamb, Martha; Pond, Nathan Gillett (1881). Stevens, John Austin; DeCosta, Benjamin Franklin; Johnston, Henry Phelps (eds.). The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries. A. S. Barnes. p. 353–357.
• Maurois, André (1961). Adrienne: The Life of the Marquise de La Fayette. Translated by Hopkins, Gerard. originally written in French
• Miller, Melanie Randolph. Envoy to the Terror.
• Morris, Gouverneur; Morris, Anne Cary (1888b). The Diary and Letters of Gouverneur Morris. Vol. II. C. Scribner's Sons.
• Nelson, Paul David (2005). Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of Hastings: Soldier, Peer of the Realm, Governor-General of India. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. p. 55. ISBN 978-0-8386-4071-5.
• Roberts, Cokie (2008). Ladies of Liberty. William Morrow. p. 327. ISBN 978-0-06-078234-4.
• Senior, Nassau William (1880). Conversations with Distinguished Persons During the Second Empire. p. 21.
• Sichel, Edith Helen (1900). The Household of the Lafayettes. A. Constable. p. 71.
• "Portraits / His friends: Francisque de Corcelle". Alexis de Tocqueville 1805. 15 October 2005. Retrieved 27 December 2016.
• Unger, Harlow Giles (2002). Lafayette. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 0-471-39432-7.

Further reading

• Gottschlk, Louis (2007). Lafayette Comes to America. Read Books. pp. 27. ISBN 978-1-4067-2793-7.
• Lane, Jason (2003). General and Madame de Lafayette: Partners in Liberty's Cause in the American and French Revolutions. Taylor Trade Publishing.
• Maurois, André (1961). Adrienne; ou, La vie de Madame de La Fayette. Hachette.
• Morris, Gouverneur; Morris, Anne Cary (1888). The Diary and Letters of Gouverneur Morris. Vol. I. C. Scribner's Sons.
• "Books: An 18th Century Marriage". Time. 26 May 1961. Archived from the original on 1 October 2007.

Collections

• Letter from Adrienne de Lafayette to her Children, The 17th Brumaire, November 1794
• John Jay letter to Adrienne Lafayette, 13 August 1785
• Gouverneur Morris letter to Adrienne Lafayette, 19 December 1796
• Lafayette Family Papers, University of Maryland
• National Museum of Women in the Arts Archived 1 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine
• Généalogie de Carné, Alain de Carné en novembre 2006
• Neil Jeffares, Dictionary of pastellists before 1800, Noailles Iconographical Genealogy
• Adrienne de La Fayette at Find a Grave
• The Marquis de Lafayette collection, Cleveland State University
• Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette Collection, Library of Congress