French Families - American Families of French Ancestry, Beauvau Family, Chass Riau Family, de Lesseps Family, Desbrisay Family, Ephrussi (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 28. Chapters: Bazin Family, Bertillon, Casadesus, Celoron de Blainville, Choiseul (surname), Chouan family, Chouteau, Courtet, Craon family, Crescas, Cruse family, Derenbourg, Desfours, Deval, De la Vallee family, Dugazon family, Fratellini family, Friedel family, Gobelin, Gouffier, Helene van Zuylen, Hus family, Jurien de la Graviere, Koechlin family, Lamy (bow makers), La Fayette family, Malter family, Merieux family, Monneron family, Morizot Family, Mourlot, Neufville de Villeroy family, Panckoucke, Pardaillan, Pereire brothers, Poinsignon, Restout, Roquefeuil Versols, Samblanay, Schutzenberger, Treich, Vigneron (bow makers). Excerpt: The House of La Fayette is a French noble family established during the Middle-Age by the lords of the fief of La Fayette. Its most illustrious members are: The young Georges Washington de La Fayette at the Fete de la Federation, 14 July 1790.Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette married Marie Adrienne Francoise de Noailles (2 November 1759 - 24 December 1807), the daughter of Jean-Paul-Francois, 5th duc de Noailles, and Henriette d'Aguesseau. They had four children: Henriette (1776-1778), Anastasie Louise Pauline du Motier (1777-1863), Georges Washington Louis Gilbert du Motier, (1779-1849), and Marie Antoinette Virginie du Motier (1782-1849). Georges de Lafayette married Emilie de Tracy, daughter of the Comte de Tracy, in 1802; they had three daughters and two sons: Natalie, who married Adolphe Perier; Matilde, who married Maurice de Pusy (1799-1864, son of Jean-Xavier Bureau de Pusy); Clementine, who married "Gustave" Auguste Bonnin de La Bonniniere de Beaumont; Oscar Gilbert Lafayette (1815-1881), liberal politician; and Edmond. Virginie married Louis de Lasteyrie On 20 April 1803. They had four children: Pauline, who married Charles de Remusat, Melanine, who married Francisque de Corcelle (a friend of de Tocqueville), in 1831, Octavie, and their son, Adrien Jules de Lasteyrie (1810-1883) married Olivia de Rohan-Chabot (1813-1899), the daughter of the emigre Louis de Rohan, Vicomte de Chabot, and Lady Charlotte Fitzgerald, daughter of the second Duke of Leinster. Melanine and Francisque had a daughter Marie Henriette Helene Marthe Tircuy de Corcelle (6 June 1832, Paris - 17 November 1902, Paris), who married Charles Adolphe Pineton de Chambrun (10 August 1831, Marjevols - 13 September 1891, New York), a lawyer from New York, at the Eglise de la Madeleine on 8 June 1859. Adrien Jules and Olivia had a son, Louis de Lasteyrie who married Olivia Mills Goodlake; they had two children, Gui de Lasteyrie (b. 1878), and Louis de Lasteyrie (1881-1955). Louis married Lo