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[LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de]. Document signé par les Frères M. Herbert et Charles M. King Savannah, Georgia, 3 mars 1825 1 p. in-4, bruni, marges abîmées avec pertes de papier
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EXEMPLAIRE DE LAFAYETTE. LA GRANDE LOGE DE GÉORGIE ACCUEILLE ET INVITE “OUR REVERED AND BELOVED BROTHER LAFAYETTE" Lettre de la Grand Lodge of Georgia communicant les résolutions et l’invitation à un dîner maçonnique dès son arrivée, signée par les Frères M. Herbert et Charles M. King Lafayette arrived at Savannah later that month : “When on the morning of the 19th, we arrived in sight of Savannah, we perceived all the population on the shore, and the militia assembled, who had waited during several hours. We soon heard the majestic salute of the artillery, and the acclamations of the people. We replied to them by a salute from the guns of our vessel, and by the patriotic airs with which our music caused to re-echo from the shore ; while there, he laid the cornerstone of a monument to his fellow Revolutionary major-general, Nathanael Greene : 'the masonic society, which was charged with all the details relative to the construction of the monument, formed itself into a procession on the 21st March, at nine in the morning, and moved to the sound of music, to the lodgings of general Lafayette. The high priest, the king and other officers of the royal chapter of Georgia, were decorated with their finest apparel and richest masonic jewels. Before them was carried a banner elegantly embroidered... General Lafayette then advanced to the place prepared to receive the corner stone. He was surrounded by the grand master, the grand keepers, the chaplain, the grand priest, the king, and the secretary of chapter of Georgia" (Levasseur, Lafayette in America, II, pp. 58-62).
