LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de [Toast 18] Document autographe signé Portland, 25 juin 1825 9 lignes
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TOAST PRONONCÉ EXEMPLAIRE DE .À PORTLAND LAFAYETTE. TOAST IN PORTLAND. LAFAYETTE’S COPY “Gal Lafayette’s toast at the Portland public dinner. Gal L.F. rose and said he eagerly availed himself of this opportunity to repeat his acknowledgements of the affectionate welcome he had received and he proposed the following toast : The state of Maine who, yet an infant and nor weaned from the mother, gallantly helped in crushing european aristocracy and despotism, and Portland City who rose from the ashes of patriotic Falmouth to become the flourishing Metropolis of a flourishing State : may their joined republican prosperity and happiness last and increase for ever !" The “Burning of Falmouth" (October 18, 1775) was an attack by a fleet of Royal Navy vessels on the town of Falmouth, Massachusetts (site of the modern city of Portland, Maine, and not to be confused with the modern towns of Falmouth, Massachusetts or Falmouth, Maine). “On the 25th we arrived at Portland, a pretty town on the seashore, between the rivers Saco and Penobscot. It has been for a long time the seat of the government of Maine, and its population, almost entirely commercial, is about nine thousands souls. The citizens of Portland and their magistrates had prepared a reception worthy of their love for Lafayette, and it may be said not to have yielded in magnificence to that accorded him by the largest cities of the Union" (Levasseur, Lafayette in America, II, p. 233)
