The Life of La Fayette, the Knight of Liberty in Two Worlds and Two Centuries

part in the happiness caused by the birth of her three eldest

grandchildren. She bore with gentle fortitude the anxieties of which my brother and my husband were the objects during the campaigns of 1805 and 1806. She heard with joy of George’s good fortune when he saved his general’s life at the battle of Eylau. The peace which followed brought on for her a period of unmingled happi...