adrienne de lafayette: the woman, the icon, the legacy
was only FOURTEEN when she married sixteen year old, awakward, lanky, redheaded fuckboy lafayette
(her mom loved laf but hated them together so she almost didnāt let them marry, didnāt let them sleep in the same room on their weddng night, and sent people with them on outings well into adulthood)
her dumbass husband ran off to america to fight in a war without telling anyone including his wife, so nice job on that one gilbert
her first daughter henriette fucking DIED as an infant, when laf was still in america. so adrienne dealt with that without her husband even being there
she was actually without her husband for quite a while come to think of it. like around 4 years total
handled their familyās finances on her own, because she was a fierce and brilliant woman
popped out four (4) of lafās weird lookin kids
joined an abolitionist society along with her husband and purchased a cinnamon plantation with the sole purpose of freeing the slaves on the land
Ā had to deal with her husband doing stupid things like naming their child after general george washington and changing their family motto toĀ āwhy not?ā
and then, to everyoneās surprise and shock, her husband took up another post during the french revolution and went away for five months only to get sent to jail
she and her daughters were put on house arrest
oh and also a bunch of her family and friends had just been beheaded
while on house arrest, she sent letters to a whole shitton fuckton of people to try and get her husband out of an austrian prison and back to france
yeah she didnāt hear from laf for like two years while he was in prison because no one would let him write to her
smart smart woman burned any document or letter that could get laf in troubleĀ
anyway she finally got to this prison with her daughters except they would let laf out so she was likeĀ āfuck you and fuck your rules if he canāt come out iām coming inā
LITERALLY ALLOWED HERSELF TO BE IMPRISONED FOR TWO FUCKING YEARS BECAUSE SHE LOVED HER HUSBAND THAT MUCH
(did i mention he cheated on her? twice? and she still went through all this shit and never had a bad thought about him :)))))))))
oh and! surprise! she got lead poisoning from the dirty water in the prison ah what a life
so they get out of prison and do you know what she does? she regains all their property, all their money, and gets them out of 200,000 livres worth of debt, because she was a badass
the hilarious end to her story is that she died a very painful death when she was 48 due to the lead poisoning she got n the prison
her last words ever spoken were to laf. and do you know what she said?Ā āi am entirely yoursā
anyway iām dead inside and this woman deserves a bajillion dollars and a halo