Marie LAFARGE dite Madame Lafarge. Marie Aimée Fortunée Cape - Lot 489

Marie LAFARGE dite Madame Lafarge. Marie Aimée Fortunée Capelle (1816-1852) was the daughter of Baron Antoine Laurent Capelle, Lieutenant-Colonel of the Royal Artillery Corps, and Caroline Fortunée Collard (daughter of Jacques Collard de Montjouy, Member of Parliament for Aisne). On August 11, 1839, she married Charles Pouch-Lafarge, entrepreneur, ironmaster and mayor of Beyssac. This gave rise to the "Lafarge Affair", as she was found guilty of poisoning her husband. In 1840, she was sentenced to forced labor for life, and to be exposed in the public square of TULLE. According to some sources, she was a great-granddaughter ofPhilippe Égalité andFélicité de Genlis. Marie Lafarge received a presidential grace from Prince-Président Louis-Napoléon 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 surrender of self, friendship the gift of self. Love is a blind superstition, friendship an enlightened religion..."