#1834

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La Mode, Pl. 360, 1 mars 1834, Paris. Robe de velours. Crevés et noeuds de satin. Agraffes de pierreries. Jupe de dessous en satin. Coiffure ornée de plumes et d'un de plumes et d'un Héron. Digital Collections of the Los Angeles Public Library

The woman on the left is wearing a short-sleeved, open red dress with a lace tippet and decorated with bows. She is wearing elbow-length, white gloves, a necklace, and earrings, and is holding a fan in her right hand. She is wearing a tiara and a bandeau in her hair, which is also decorated with feathers. The seated woman on the right is facing away from the viewer. She is wearing a teal dress of similar design. She is wearing a necklace, earrings, tiara, and her hair is decorated with feathers.

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Vietnam in the year of 1834.

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Le Phénakisticop by Paul Gavarni, 1834 (Art Institute Chicago).

A charming look at an 1830s couple enjoying the novelty of an early animation technology: a phenakistiscope disc that shows a short, looping animation when rotated.

A French phenakistiscope animation from 1833 (Wikimedia).

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Sawfish Bill with a painting of the american barque 'The Pleiad' at Padre Island Texas. dated 1834

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Page from the Senate Legislative Journal Showing the Expungement of a Resolution to Censure the President

Record Group 46: Records of the U.S. SenateSeries: Journals and Minute BooksFile Unit: Minute Books and Journals of the 23rd Congress

[near upper-left corner in Image:] 552

     The yeas and nays being desired by one fifth of the Senators present those who voted in the affirmative, are

     Messrs.  Bibb, Black, Calhoun, Clay, Clayton, Ewing, Frelinghuysen, Hendricks, Kent,  King of Georgia, Knight,  Leigh, Mangum, Naudain, Poindexter, Porter, Prentiss, Preston, Robbins, Silsbee, Smith, Southard, Sprague,  Swift, [struck-through:"Tallm"] Tomlinson, Tyler, Waggaman, Webster.

     Those who voted in the negative are Messrs. Benton, Brown, Forsyth, Grundy, Hill, Kane, King of Al[']a. [abbreviation for "Alabama"; "a" seen in superscript in Image above "."]], Linn, M[']cKean, Moore, Morris, Robinson, Shepley, Tallmadge, Tipton, White, Wilkins, Wright.

          On M[']r. Clay having modified his said first resolution to read as follows

[[the following text is enclosed in a hand drawn [rectangular] box]] Resolved that the President in the late Executive proceedings in relation to the public revenue, has assumed upon himself authority and power not conferred by the Constitution and laws,  but in derogation of both.

[[the following text is written vertically over the text in the hand drawn box]]  Expunged by order of the Senate this sixteenth day of January in the Year of our Lord 1837.

     On the question to agree thereto

 It was determined in the affirmative

 Yeas 26 Nays 20.

     On motion by M[']r. Clay,

         The yeas and nays b[[?]] [[?]]ired by

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Ferdinand Hauptner (German, 1828-1846) Portrait of a young lady, 1834

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ANNE LISTER & ANN WALKER: THE HONEYMOON

Fancy following in the footsteps of Anne Lister and Ann Walker on their honeymoon? There's a new great travelmap created by Anne Lister in Paris and us, following our Ann(e)s through France, Switzerland and the Kingdom of Sardinia, directly from the words of Anne and Ann's diaries, transcribed by our own @whatdoesshedotothem and @insearchofannwalker . Oh… obviously there's more to come! A further in-depth exploration of the Italian part of this trip is coming soon. Stick with us, but in the meantime… enjoy travelling with our Ann(e)s!

Volete seguire le orme di Anne Lister ed Ann Walker nella loro luna di miele? Abbiamo unito le energie con @Annelisterinparis e ne è uscita la bellissima travelmap che ripercorre il questo viaggio del 1834 attraverso Francia, Svizzera e l'allora Regno di Sardegna, direttamente dalle parole dei diari di Anne e di Ann, trascritte dalla nostra @frankieraia e da @searchingforann. Ah… naturalmente non finisce qui! Presto arriverà anche un altro approfondimento sulla parte italiana di questo viaggio

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Louisiana Blue Heron - Audubon

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La Mode, Pl. 392, 16 août 1834, Paris. Fichu garni de dentelle. Tablier en mousseline brodé garni de valenciennes. Jardiniere en bois brut et pomme de pin. Digital Collections of the Los Angeles Public Library

The woman on the right is wearing a white dress with gigot sleeves and a white ceinture with floral print. She is wearing gloves and is holding a book in her left hand. She is wearing a lace cap decorated with flowers. The woman on the left is facing away from the viewer. She is wearing a white dress with gigot sleeves and a ceinture (sash) around her waist. She is also wearing earrings.

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Georges de La Fayette's Reaction to the Death of his Father

La Fayette only son Georges was everything that a father could have wished for. Georges was the perfect picture of filial devotion – to the point where some historians and authors (including me) have argued that George almost lost himself in his devotion to his father. He was named after his father’s friend and parenteral figure, he followed his father into the army and into politics, his fathers believes where his believes. He went to America, first alone as a refugee and later as a companion of his father in La Fayette’s moment of triumph. He risked his life to retrieve his father’s sword and married the daughter of his father’s friend.

While the death of La Fayette was a terrible hard blow to all his children, grand-children, great-grand-children, relatives, and friends, let us have a look at the man who, on this day in 1834, became the new Marquis de La Fayette:

From every side burst forth the sobs of the bystanders, which had hitherto been checked by their religious respect and by their fear of disturbing the last moments of Lafayette. Piercing and stifled shrieks strongly expressed the grief to which every heart was a prey. George Lafayette, his eyes motionless and bathed in tears, remained for some time in a state of stupor, from which he recovered only to address to his father his adieux, that were scarcely audible through the sobs torn from him by despair His wife endeavored to sustain and aid him to support the blow which had smitten him, but, insensible to every other feeling than that of poignant anguish, he heeded not the consolations lavished on him by her tenderness. How noble was his grief! How deeply he felt his loss! And oh! how fervently had he prayed that his father’s parting breath might still be spared, or that his spirit, as it hovered on the verge of eternity, might be joined his own.

Jules Germain Cloquet, Recollections of the Private Life of General Lafayette, Baldwin and Cradock, London, 1835, p. 279.

This scene is utterly heartbreaking to read, and it is not only now, with the distance of almost 200 years, that Georges strong affection was noted. His deep grief and total devotion to his father were already noted by a family friend at the time of La Fayette’s passing:

On the painful occasion which I have just described, M. George Lafayette, the worthy and modest heir of his father’s virtues, presented us with an admirable example of filial piety. He entertained for his parent that religious respect which is usually granted only to the memory of beloved individuals. He knew by experience his high qualities, his domestic virtues, and proved his affection for him by unbounded devotion to his slightest wishes. But if he was justly proud of the author of his days, the General on his side felt the value of such a son, and reaped the reward of the care which he had taken of his education, and of the advice and example which he had given to him.

M. George Lafayette had long attached himself as it were to his father’s steps, had followed him in his travels, and had been witness to his triumph at the period of his last visit to the United States. How heartfelt must have been his gratification, at seeing that great nation confer on his parent such striking and unanimous marks of gratitude: -- at seeing the American people mingle their prayers with his for the happiness and the preservation of the friend of Washington and Franklin! M. George Lafayette, the worthy pupil of Washington, was gifted with a mild but at the same time a firm and frank disposition. He bore with courage the apprehensions by which he was assailed during his father’s illness, concealed from him his anguish, and like a consoling genius never once quitted his bedside. It was thus that he discharged the duties of filial love, -- those sacred duties, a feeling of which has been deeply implanted by nature in every virtuous heart, and the performance of which presents an affecting example at the present day, when respect for old age, love of parents, and the ties of blood, have so great a tendency to be weakened; when a selfish spirit of unlimited and mistaken independence hardens the heart, and tends to produce errors no less fatal than those which were caused by abuse of authority in days of ignorance and degradation.

Jules Germain Cloquet, Recollections of the Private Life of General Lafayette, Baldwin and Cradock, London, 1835, pp. 277-278.

Georges is nobodies first association with the title “Marquis de La Fayette” and while he is not forgotten by history, he forever stands in his father’s shadow. Not only does he stand unjustly in his father’s shadow (for Georges was a fascinating and intriguing person in his own right), no, he stands there completely voluntarily. And while I can deeply resonate with this kind of devotion, I also have to admit, that it is a crying shame that there is not more about Georges, Marquis de La Fayette, as an individual. Not only in relation to his father or famous godfather, not in relation to anyone but himself.

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Portrait of Mademoiselle Riviere, Eugenie Tripier Lefranc, 1834

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Bonjour, Ami! by Paul Gavarni, 1834.

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Two scrimshawed walrus tusks, c. 1834

One engraved with three sailing vessels; HMS Illustrious, HMS Trincomalee, flanked by a blowing whale and HMS Pilot, inscribed with the words ‘Walrus Tusk’ the other similarly engraved with HMS Erin, Conway and Stag and inscribed ‘Port Clarence August 1834’