Lot n° 294

LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de [Toast 32] Document autographe signé Warrington [Warrenton], début sept. 1825 12 lignes

Estimation : 2000 / 3000
Adjudication : Invendu
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TOAST PRONONCÉ À WARRENTON. EXEMPLAIRE DE LAFAYETTE. TOAST IN WARRENTON. LAFAYETTE’S COPY “At Warrington Fauquier court house. General Lafayette rose and said that having had this day a most gratifying occasion to (?) the people of Fauquier with the tribute of his warm gratitude and affectionate devotion, he would not now further trespass on their time than to express the high value he did set by the approbation of his friends and companion in arms, colonel Monroe, and the obligations his family had been (?) to him in very gloomy circumstances, he proposed the following toast : The old Virginia line, the militia of 1781, and the present generations of Fauquier. May the Revolutionay services of the fathers find an everlasting reward in the Republican prosperity and happiness of their children" General Lafayette was given a banquet in 1825 with 6,000 of Fauquier’s population
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