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LAFAYETTE, Georges Wahington de [Toast 35] Document autographe de la main du marquis de Lafayette Orange county, near Montpellier, vers le 20 novembre 1824 3 lignes

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TOAST PORTÉ PAR LE FILS DE LAFAYETTE, MAIS ÉCRIT PAR LAFAYETTE.PÈRE TOAST MADE BY LAFAYETTE’S SON, BUT WRITTEN BY LAFAYETTE, FATHER “The County of Orange and all the sentiments which gratifying remembrances (...) G. W. L.F.’s toast" “We left Montpellier on the 19th of November for Fredericksburgh, by way of Orange Court-house. A numerous escort, under the command of captain Mason, had arrived in the morning, to attend General Lafayette and M. Madison and insisted on accompanying him." (Levasseur, Lafayette in America, I, p. 225)
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