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Strategies, opportunities, and challenges of integrating shared micromobility with public transport

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[nordleuchten]

what is the best source for information on georges lafayette?

Dear Anon,

that is a wonderful question! You will shoot me a message, if you found the answer, yes? :-)

But all jokes aside, it is a little tricky to find information on Georges due to several reasons. He never wrote his own Memoirs, he has always very gladly occupied his fathers shadow and no historian has yet decided to dedicate their professional life to Georges. If you just search for the term “Georges Lafayette” most results will deal with the relation between George Washington and La Fayette. Still, there are some resources I can recommend if you want to do some research.

Lafayette in America in 1824 and 1825, Volume 1 and Lafayette in America in 1824 and 1825, Volume 2. Both books were written by La Fayette’s secretary Auguste Levasseur and give great insight into La Fayette’s Tour of 1824/25 – including Georges, who accompanied his father.

Recollections of the Private Life of General Lafayette by Jules Germain Cloquet. Cloquet was the family’s physician and a friend. The focus of this books lies once again with the older La Fayette but nonetheless offers a view of Georges and his position within the family.

Life of Madame de Lafayette by Virginie, Marquise de Lasteyrie du Sallant is primarily concerned with Adrienne but, for example, details Georges’ whereabouts and “journeys” during Adrienne’s imprisonment in France.

The best thing there is, are letters. Sadly, Georges’ letters have never been compiled and published but that does not have to stop us! Founders Online has a number of letters about and by Georges (here and here). The letters that are written about Georges are mainly between Alexander Hamilton and George Washington during the early 1790’s when Georges was in America and later between La Fayette and Thomas Jeffersons (but also James Madison and others) when they updated each other regularly about their families. The Library of Congress has a few handwritten letters by Georges to George Washington (and a few others). Georges Washington’s Mount Vernon also had a few letters from Georges to members of the Washington-Parke-Custis-family, but as far as I knew they are only partially digitalized.

The University of Chicago has a number of letters by Georges La Fayette – quite the treasure chest. Same goes for the Archives départementales de Seine-et-Marne. The family’s manor La Grange is located in this department and the archives have a webpage and a great PDF-file on the family. Again, La Fayette is placed in the spotlight but there are also a few but highly interesting tidbits about Georges.

Then we have the Paris Archives, État civil reconstitué (XVIe-1859) in France. There you find documents like birth-, marriage- and death-certificates.

Last but not least, Georges’ political opinions are partially documented in the Archives Parlementaires (huge thank-you to @echo-bleu for helping me finding these.)

I hope you are able to find the information you are looking for and I hope you have/had a lovely day!

[stemcellee]

september 13 2022

back from a week away from the lab for family reasons, not really feeling up to rigorous work…last week made me really want to quit my job and find something closer to home and focus on family but i need to remind myself that that feeling is temporary and heavily influenced by my current circumstances. i need to remember to make time for myself too :(

anyways i went to lab to take care of some managerial stuff this morning but i finished basically all of it within an hour so i walked down the street to get a nice coffee and enjoy the ~coffee shop vibes~

[thebigwhatif]

I am once again on the night grind. I started an assignment due tomorrow today. Let's see how late I stay up until if I end up consuming enough caffine to commune with God.

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27/10/22 - So much lab time over the past two weeks but my master's research project is progressing! Just adding some extra diagrams and notes to my lab book tonight

[carlosgalvez696]

Hi there! I look up all the interesting shapes, patterns, and textures that I could find 🌎 @bodiesfall2022 #doit

[aarmanious]

Discovery is the privilege of the child: the child who has no fear of being once again wrong, of looking like an idiot, of not being serious, of not doing things like everyone else.

Alexander Grothendieck

[thetragicallynerdy]

I realized recently that most of my historical research for fanfic is just like, what foods were common in that area at that time. It is by far my most frequent type of research, and I’m ok with that lol