I was perusing through a book about the Marquis de Lafayette (1757-1834), and the page I opened to, was about his wife, Adrienne.
During France’s revolution, called the Reign of Terror (1793-1794), that didn’t do justice to the horrors that went on, after just doing his job of trying unsuccessfully to protect the King and Queen (both were executed), Lafayette was thrown in jail.
Not just any jail mind you, but Olmutz, the worst jail in Austria.
Adrienne, also arrested, but placed in another prison (La Force then College du Plessis), before Sally Monroe, wife of James who was our diplomat in France at the time, advocated for the Marquis de Lafayette, until they finally let her out a year later.
Instead of going home, Adrienne went to the Emperor of Austria to say, she wanted to be with her husband.
Go home Madam Lafayette, he told her, go be with your children. You cannot come out once you go in, but taking their two daughters, went anyway, saving her husband’s life since he was failing so…his legendary spirit all but gone.
Finally after two years, Napoleon released them, but sadly, Adrienne, at 48, the experience diminishing her, died, buried alongside her family who were executed as members of the aristocracy, thrown into a mass grave in Paris’s Picpus Cemetary where Lafayette, outliving her by 27 years, also rests. 
I can’t say enough how much Adrienne’s story moves me. The selflessness, determination and sheer will to be with the man she clearly lived for.
On her death bed, her last words to him were…
Je suis toute a nous….I am all yours.
Women, when we love, we love big.
Marie Adrienne Francois de Noailles, Marquise de Lafayette (1759-1807)
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Yep, and you ladies often go for the wrong guy 🤣😅😄
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He was quite the man of his time. The Elvis of the military.
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What a love story. Why hasn’t a movie ever been made about them?
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Good question. She was very noble during a time of such upheaval. And she loved him so. Sigh
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Sounds like a Nicholas Sparks story.
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There was actually a play written.
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Nowadays all we get are idiots on Facebook making wild claims of Michelle Obama being a transvestite. I had to draw the line at that one. Don’t get me wrong… I love good slander but some people in your country don’t know when to stop. I guess we could say we are in a current terror of our own. If Mrs Obama were a tranny you would have to say that Barack has done pretty well for himself still. Technology has produced a dumbing down terror effect for the morons. Publishers were once gateways. Hell… my reading of Shakespeare and Hemingway by 18 wasn’t considered a mental illness. It still wasn’t in a university though several professors fought very hard for me
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I don’t participate in social media. Know nothing about any of this. Sorry.
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Was a popular one going around a while ago. I don’t believe there is a 5th estate. It is a part of the 4th. The 4th has created this idea of the 5th. Going back to your French history… that is when the 3rd estate really showed itself in nations like France then your own. Elvis might be an apt analogy… eating fried peanut butter and jelly sandwiches by then. Robespierre would have seen the irony and barely paused to smile for it. I have more appreciation for old cats like Castro who we talked about a few months ago. Lest we forget
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You know a lot more than I do about this.
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So say tje certified authorities issuing qualifications in such areas… I guess they should be pleased to know 🤣😅😄 jai guru deva
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You’re very funny Coyote.
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Re: Peter Sellars tombstone…. “I told them I was sick” 🤡🤐
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Is that really what it says? Wry to the last.
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Loved him. More importantly is what Aslan said was written on the stone table
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And that was what? Don’t leave us hanging Coyote.
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I was thinking this morning what a brilliant title it is…. THE LION, THE WITCH, AND THE WARDROBE. is it not tbe meaning of life? A fairy tale for adults.
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I have a first edition of that given to me by my 86 year-old former neighbor. It sits on my window sill in a place of honor.
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As long as it sits in your heart always. Imagine Morpheus narrating 😃
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Who the fuck is Morpheus?
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Matrix. Lawrence Fishburn. Really girl 😴😈😱
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Never saw that. I’m more a Pride & Prejudice kinda girl.
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Love it.
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Very interesting!
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I think so too.
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We sure do Marie, we sure do. Please tell me that he mourned her for those 27 years and didn’t remarry because he struggled being alone or couldn’t cook for himself.
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Her Gilbert did not remarry, however he was a bit of a philanderer I’m sorry to say, but he loved her the way Frenchmen love their wives. You know Top, we love the way she did. Like lionesses.
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Of course he was ….Rawr!
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Yeah, that French thing those madams say they accept. Like Jackie. It’s bullshit. Then they all wonder why they die so young and the men flourish. Of course JFK was an exception but he didn’t die of natural causes. Aye
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