Posthumous
- Lasalle's remains were brought from Austria to Les Invalides in 1891.
- Statue of the Count Charles de La Salle figures on the wall of the Louvre Museum in Paris.
- In 1893, an equestrian statue of him was erected at Lunéville in Lorraine (see image).
- In Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Pit and the Pendulum" (1842), a "LaSalle" rescues the narrator by grabbing his arm as he is about to fall into a pit. This may or may not be the historical Lasalle.
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