Marie LAFARGE, known as Madame Lafarge. Marie Aimée Fortunée - Lot 477

Marie LAFARGE, known as Madame Lafarge. Marie Aimée Fortunée Capelle (1816–1852) was the daughter of Baron Antoine Laurent Capelle, a lieutenant colonel in the Royal Artillery, and Caroline Fortunée Collard (daughter of Jacques Collard de Montjouy, a deputy from the Aisne department). On August 11, 1839, she married Charles Pouch-Lafarge, an ironmaster and mayor of Beyssac. She would become the subject of “The Lafarge Affair” after being found guilty of poisoning her husband. In 1840, she was sentenced to life imprisonment with hard labor and public display in the town 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 Prince-President Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte shortly before his death—an unsigned autograph letter (circa 1838) discussing love and friendship. 2 pages, in-4°: “Love is the union of hearts; friendship is the alliance of souls. Love is the surrender of the self; friendship is its gift. Love is a blind superstition; friendship is an enlightened religion…”

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