Anastasie du Motier de La Fayette, Comtesse de La Tour-Maubourg
(1777-1863)
BIRTH
July 1, 1777
PLACE
France
DEATH
1863
PLACE
France
FAMILY
MOTHER
Adrienne Noailles de Lafayette
(1759-1807)
BROTHER
Michel du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette
(1731-1759)
SISTER
Henriette Anne Louise d'Aguesseau
(1737-1794)
BROTHER
Jean de Noailles
(1739-1824)
SISTER
Adrienne de La Fayette
(1759-1807)
SISTER
Henriette du Motier
(1776-1778)
BROTHER
Georges Washington de La Fayette
(1779-1849)
SISTER
Virginie du Motier de Lafayette
(1782-1849)
CHILDREN
Adrienne Jenny Florimonde de Fay de La Tour-Maubourg
(1812-1897)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Anastasie du Motier de Lafayette (1777–1863) was the eldest surviving daughter of the Marquis de Lafayette and Adrienne de Noailles. During the French Revolution she endured her family’s persecution and joined her parents in Lafayette’s confinement at Olmütz. After their release in 1797, she married Juste-Charles de Fay de La Tour-Maubourg in May 1798 at her great-aunt’s refuge. Her husband’s brother Charles-César had been imprisoned with Lafayette.
EARLY LIFE
Anastasie du Motier de Lafayette was born on Jul 1, 1777 in France. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies Anastasie du Motier de Lafayette with work or public activity as a painter. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Anastasie du Motier de Lafayette was the eldest surviving daughter of the Marquis de Lafayette and Adrienne de Noailles. During the French Revolution she endured her family’s persecution and joined her parents in Lafayette’s confinement at Olmütz. Anastasie du Motier de Lafayette died in 1863, in France. The available biographical account does not describe a continuous final medical course. It gives no dependable sequence of treatment and last symptoms from which to reconstruct a more detailed bedside narrative.
MUSEUM
Chateau de Chavaniac
1 Allée de l'Hermione, 43230 Chavaniac-Lafayette, France
POPULAR BIOGRAPHIES
Anastasie de Lafayette, surviving daughter of the Marquis and Adrienne de Lafayette and wife of Juste Charles de Fay de La Tour-Maubourg. Crawford and Lasteyrie provide family biography; Lasteyrie was her sister. Five dedicated biographies were not identified. These editorial selections include biographies where available, with personal writings, collective biography, reference works and related studies clearly labelled.
1. Lafayette in Two Worlds: Public Cultures and Personal Identities in an Age of Revolutions — Lloyd Kramer. [Related family and political biography] Find on Amazon
2. Lafayette — Harlow Giles Unger. [Related biography of the Marquis de Lafayette] Find on Amazon
3. The Marquis: Lafayette Reconsidered — Laura Auricchio. [Related biography of the Marquis de Lafayette] Find on Amazon
4. Madame de Lafayette and Her Family — Mary MacDermot Crawford. [Related family biography] Find on Amazon
5. Life of Madame de Lafayette — Virginie Lafayette de Lasteyrie. [Related family biography of Adrienne de Lafayette] Find on Amazon
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