Marie LAFARGE known as Madame Lafarge. Marie Aimée Fortunée - Lot 356

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Marie LAFARGE known as Madame Lafarge. Marie Aimée Fortunée - Lot 356
Marie LAFARGE known as Madame Lafarge. Marie Aimée Fortunée Capelle (1816-1852) was the daughter of Baron Antoine Laurent Capelle, Lieutenant-Colonel in the Royal Artillery Corps, and Caroline Fortunée Collard (daughter of Jacques Collard de Montjouy, Deputy of the Aisne). On August 11, 1839, she married Charles Pouch-Lafarge, entrepreneur, master of forges and mayor of Beyssac. She gave birth to the "Lafarge Affair" because she was found guilty of having poisoned her husband. She was sentenced in 1840 to hard labor for life and to be exposed in the public square of TULLE. According to some sources, she was a great-granddaughter of Philippe Égalité and Félicité de Genlis. Marie Lafarge received a presidential pardon from the Prince-President Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte shortly before his death - Unsigned autograph letter (circa 1838) speaking of love and friendship. 2 pages in-4° : " Love is the union of hearts, friendship the alliance of souls. Love is the abandonment of oneself, friendship is the gift of it. Love is a blind superstition, friendship an enlightened religion... "
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