Recovery
They recuperated at Lhemkuln, Holstein near her sister Madame de Montagu, and aunt Madame de Tessé. At Mme de Tessé's Witmold, Anastasie married, Juste-Charles de la Tour-Maubourg, younger brother of another Olmütz detainee Charles César de Fay de La Tour-Maubourg, and Marie Victor de Fay, marquis de Latour-Maubourg. In 1798, Georges returned from America. Adrienne helped Mme de Montagu in her financial scheme to help the émigrés. In 1799, they moved to Vianen, near Utrecht. Lafayette remained exiled, but Adrienne returned to France.
Adrienne was active recovering properties in France, including from her mother's estate, La Grange. Her sister, Mme de Montagu, settled at Fontenay fr:Château de Fontenay. In 1799, with the fall of the Directory, she secured a passport for her husband's return to France. After Napoleon's plebiscite, on 1 March 1800, he restored Lafayette's citizenship, and removed his name from the émigrés list, along with the members of the Assemblée Nationale. Many of the returned exiles, and Charles James Fox came to visit at La Grange.
They were about 200,000 livres in debt. Adrienne negotiated an indemnity for the seized Cayenne property. She recovered 500,000 francs in compensation of the confiscated Noailles property. She negotiated the sale of Brittany properties for 61,200 livres, and monthly rents of 4,800 livres. James Monroe brought Congress's grant of 11,500 acres (47 km2) in the Ohio territory, and secured a loan from Baring Brothers & Co to repay creditors, including Morris.
In 1802, Georges de Lafayette married Emilie de Tracy, daughter of the Comte de Tracy. Georges entered the army, was wounded at the battle of Mincio, in 1800, and later was aide-de-camp to General Grouchy, and was with him at the Battle of Eylau, 1807, where he gave up his horse, after Grouchy's had been killed, at the risk of his own life. After that, he resigned his commission.
On 20 April 1803, Virginie married Louis de Lasteyrie at La Grange. Their son, Jules de Lasteyrie (1810–1883) married Olivia de Rohan-Chabot (1813–1899), and lived at the château de la Grange-Bléneau for fifty-four years.
Adrienne found out from a lacemaker, Mlle Paris, the burial place of her relatives and other victims of the Terror. She was active with Mme de Montagu in raising funds to build memorials at the Picpus Cemetery.
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