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the side of that of Lafayette. They sat side by side in the triumphal car,
and at the festive board, and shared the honors and felicitations of the
people. On the day of his departure, the city presented to Lafayette
a beautiful and highly-finished miniature of his friend, richly set in a
frame of solid gold” (William Cutter,
The Life of General Lafayette
,
1849, p.364).
RÉFÉRENCE : for a miniature of Benjamin Huger by Charles Fraser,
see the
Metropolitan Museum
online : http :/
/www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/10900
800 / 1 200
€
268
LAFAYETTE
, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de
[Toast 23] Document autographe signé
New York, 4 juillet 1825
14 lignes
TOAST PRONONCÉ À NEW YORK LE 4 JUILLET 1825.
EXEMPLAIRE DE LAFAYETTE.
TOAST IN NEW YORK ON 4
th
JULY, 1825. LAFAYETTE’S COPY
“Gal Lafayette rose and expressed his respectful and affectionate
sense of the honor conferred upon him by the individual toast to an
old American soldier on the great anniversary day, of American and,
he expected, of European and universal freedom, that new common
state freedom founded on the sovereignty of the people, the rights of
men, and self government. He afford the following sentiment : National
independence and republican freedom : to what it can produce, this
city of New York and the grand western canal may assure.
L.F.’s volunteer toast.
The Republics of South America and Mexico and Greece”
“At Whitehall we were told of the boast of the English general,
and we now found ourselves on the field of battle which
humbled his pride ; we should have been exceedingly pleased
to visit this theatre of one of the most-glorious events of the
Revolution ; but the night was too far advanced (…) and
some hours afterwards the sun of the Fourth of July rose
radiantly to illuminate the 49
th
anniversary of the declaration
of independence (…) The sermon, the subject of which was
the solemnity of the day, was followed by the reading of the
declaration of independence, which was listened to with
profound attention” (Levasseur,
Lafayette in America
, II, p. 215)
3 000 / 5 000
€
- Toast -
268