LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de [Toast 7] Document autographe Norfolk, [22 octobre 1824] 4 lignes
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VISITE À NORFOLK. EXEMPLAIRE DE LAFAYETTE. VISIT TO NORFOLK. LAFAYETTE’S COPY “Norfolk and may the former sufferings be more and more rewarded by the prosperity which her happy situation warrants her friends to anticipate" “Of all cities we had visited, Norfolk had the least agreeable aspect ; the houses are generally badly built, and the streets narrow and crooked. On account of the circumjacent marshes, the air is unhealthy, and diseases common during autumn. Its population does not exceed 4000 souls (^) A great number of French families, emigrants from St. Domingo reside at Norfolk" (Levasseur, Lafayette in America, I, p. 194)
