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LAFAYETTE
, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de
[Toast 18] Document autographe signé
Portland, 25 juin 1825
9 lignes
TOAST PRONONCÉ À PORTLAND. EXEMPLAIRE DE
LAFAYETTE.
TOAST IN PORTLAND. LAFAYETTE’S COPY
“Gal Lafayette’s toast at the Portland public dinner.
Gal L.F. rose and said he eagerly availed himself of this opportunity
to repeat his acknowledgements of the affectionate welcome he had
received and he proposed the following toast :
The state of Maine who, yet an infant and nor weaned from the mother,
gallantly helped in crushing european aristocracy and despotism, and
Portland City who rose from the ashes of patriotic Falmouth to become
the flourishing Metropolis of a flourishing State : may their joined
republican prosperity and happiness last and increase for ever !”
The “Burning of Falmouth” (October 18, 1775) was an attack
by a fleet of Royal Navy vessels on the town of Falmouth,
Massachusetts (site of the modern city of Portland, Maine,
and not to be confused with the modern towns of Falmouth,
Massachusetts or Falmouth, Maine). “On the 25
th
we arrived
at Portland, a pretty town on the seashore, between the rivers
Saco and Penobscot. It has been for a long time the seat of
the government of Maine, and its population, almost entirely
commercial, is about nine thousands souls. The citizens of
Portland and their magistrates had prepared a reception
worthy of their love for Lafayette, and it may be said not to have
yielded in magnificence to that accorded him by the largest
cities of the Union” (Levasseur,
Lafayette in America
, II, p. 233)
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CAIRE
, Louis T.
Lettre autographe signée à Georges Washington Lafayette ; et
autres lettres (12)
Nouvelle Orléans, 26 juin 1825
3 pp. in-4.
ENSEMBLE DE LETTRES ADRESSÉES À GEORGES
WASHINGTON LAFAYETTE
En français : “Les coups de canon tirés dans la rade le 17 nous ont
rappelé l’engagement pris par le Général avec l’État de Massachusets.
Nous nous sommes flattés que pour l’anniversaire de Bunker-Hill
“je vous envoie le Code Civil offert par l’État de la Louisiane à M. le
Général”...
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