[LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de]. Lettre autographe signée du colonel David Meade Chaumière des Prairies, Kentucky, 16 mai 1825 1 p. in-4
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Il regrette d’être incapable de rejoindre ses amis à Lexington pour le fêter mais il lui recommande son fils : “I am well disposed to admit as fact, that your hereditary title of Nobility does not harmonize with your known liberal political principles : I make no excuse for not applying it to you" Chaumiere dès Prairies was the extensive Kentucky estate of the Virginian Colonel David Meade (1740-1826), famous for being - somewhat improbably given its location - landscaped in imitation of Capability Brown. On these grounds walked some of the most noted people of early America. Aaron Burr visited this house often and was held under house arrest here, Gen. Andrew Jackson, Pres. James Monroe, James Madison
