Louis-Marie, Vicomte de Noailles (Illustration)

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by Gilbert Stuart
published on 30 May 2022

Louis-Marie, Vicomte de Noailles, oil on canvas portrait by Gilbert Stuart, 1798.

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

A French noble and brother-in-law to the Marquis de Lafayette, Noailles fought in the American Revolutionary War. His speech before the National Assembly on the night of 4 August 1789 led to the August Decrees, which abolished feudalism in France.

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