Mount Vernon and its associations, historical, biographical and pictorial . BUST OF M. NECKliR. The legislature of the state of Virginia, in consideration ofthe services of Major-General the Marquis de Lafayette, hasresolved to place his bust in their capitol. This intention oferecting a monument to his virtues, and to the sentiments withwhich he has inspired them, in the country to wliich they are 230 il 01] N T VERNON indebted for liis birth, has induced a hope that the city ofParis Monld consent to become the depository of a secondproof of their gratitude. Charged by the state witli the. BU
Mount Vernon and its associations, historical, biographical and pictorial . BUST OF M. NECKliR. The legislature of the state of Virginia, in consideration ofthe services of Major-General the Marquis de Lafayette, hasresolved to place his bust in their capitol. This intention oferecting a monument to his virtues, and to the sentiments withwhich he has inspired them, in the country to wliich they are 230 il 01] N T VERNON indebted for liis birth, has induced a hope that the city ofParis Monld consent to become the depository of a secondproof of their gratitude. Charged by the state witli the. BUST OF LAFAYETTE. execution of this resohition, I have the honor to solicit thePrSvot des Marchands and municipality of Paris to accept thebust of this brave officer, and give it a situation where it maycontinually awaken the admiration and witness the respect ofthe allies of France. Thos. Jefferson. Dated [at Paris] llth September. 1786. The Prevot soon received a letter from the Baron de Bre-teuil, minister and secretary of state for the department ofParis, informing him that the king, to whom the proj^ositionhad been submitted, approved of the bust being erected in the AND ITS ASSOCIATIONS. 231 city. The council accordingly assembled on the 28th of Sep-tember, and Mr. Short, of Virginia, representing Mr. Jefferson(who was confined to his room by illness), went to the Hotelde Ville to present the bust, which Houdon had satisfactorilyexecuted. The proceedings of the meeting were opened by de Morfontaine, counsellor of state and Prevot desMarchands, by stating its object.
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