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LAFAYETTE
, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de
[Toast 31] Document autographe signé
Culpeper (Virginie), vers le 30 août 1825
5 lignes
TOAST PRONONCÉ À CULPEPER. EXEMPLAIRE DE LAFAYETTE.
TOAST IN CULPEPER LAFAYETTE’S COPY
“Gal Lafayette’s toast at Culpeper Court House :
The county of Culpeper, and old seat of gallantry and patriotism, and the Rapidan, an important
point of function in our campaign of 1781. May it be, as long as it flows, a pledge of mutual
affection between the states of the confederacy”
Rapidan is a small unincorporated community in the Virginia counties of Culpeper and
Orange. “A few days afterwards we again left the capital to make a last tour in Virginia.
On this occasion we visited Albemarle, Culpepper (…). Although in all these towns
the progress of Lafayette was marked by popular festivals, he could not avoid feeling
pained by the recollection that in a few days he was about to leave, perhaps for ever,
a country which contained so many objects of his affection” (Levasseur,
Lafayette in
America
, II, p. 245)
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