Reign of Terror
See also: Prisons of the Reign of TerrorIn May 1794, during the Reign of Terror, she was transferred to La Force Prison in Paris. Her grandmother, Catherine de Cossé-Brissac duchesse de Noailles, her mother, Henriette-Anne-Louise d'Aguesseau, duchesse d'Ayen, and sister, Anne Jeanne Baptiste Louise vicomtesse d'Ayen, were guillotined on 22 July 1794. She was transferred to the Collège du Plessis prison, then to a house on rue des Amandiers, then to the Desnos house, rue Notre-Dame des Champs. She was released on 22 January 1795, due to the efforts of Gouverneur Morris, James Monroe, and Elizabeth Monroe, who visited Adrienne in jail. In April 1795, Georges was sent to America, studied at Harvard, and stayed with George Washington.
Gouverneur Morris advanced her 100,000 livres of his own money. On 1 September 1795, Monroe issued Adrienne American passports for her and the Lafayette family, (since they had been granted Citizenship), and she traveled to Lafayette's place of imprisonment.
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