#vergennes

[my-deer-friend]

Chevalier de la Luzerne, French ambassador to America: Hey, so you knew this John Laurens guy, right? Comte de Vergennes, French foreign minister: Yeah. Luzerne: And you worked closely with him? Vergennes: [eye twitching] Yeah...? Luzerne: Well, he's dead. Vergennes: Vergennes: Vergennes: King Louis is very upset about this.

[jesyme]

Otter Creek at Vergennes, Vermont night. Circa 2005. Photography by j.e.syme

[willmarthofiaddison]

The holidays set in

Vergennes, VT

[stockschatz]

Yes it was! #vlaundry #vergennes #vermont #vergennespartnership https://www.instagram.com/p/CQFdbSqBohE/?utm_medium=tumblr

[benzglen11]

a trio of picture what have no thing to do with one another...

[thephantomofthelibrary]

Nearly twenty-two months had elapsed since Lafayette had set foot on his native soil. He had left a fugitive, subject to immediate arrest for defying the king’s orders. Now, the king’s cannons roared their welcome to the heroic knight. After recovering his land legs, Lafayette rode to Versailles to seek the king’s pardon and present a raft of letters and documents from Congress to Prime Minister Maurepas, Foreign Minister Vergennes, and to the king himself. He arrived at two in the morning - too late to breach the palace gates, but not too late to appear, unannounced, at a ball at his cousin’s stately mansion a few steps away. The handsome uniform of an American major general  caused a stir. At first, they did not recognise him. He was a boy when he left; he now returned looking far older - and somewhat balder - than his twenty-one years. After a few moments of disbelief applause broke out, then loud cheers. “I had left as rebel and fugitive,” he exulted, “and returned in triumph as an idol.”

Harlow Giles Unger, Lafayette, (2002) p.94

[keiteay]

Movie scenes

[takinpictsofroadsnrails]

Vergennes (2016)