Asylum - Wyalusing, PA
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ripraff
N 41° 43.867 W 076° 17.861
18T E 392076 N 4620737
This is an overlook on route 6. The sign describes the settlement of French Royalty who were escaping the Revolution.
Waymark Code: WMRVYT
Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Date Posted: 08/10/2016
Views: 8
text "Asylum A settlement of French Royalists who fled the French Revolution in 1793 was established in the valley directly opposite this marker. It was laid out and settled under the direction of Viscount de Noailles and Marquis Antoine Omer Talon. It was hoped that Queen Antoinette might here find safety. Among many distinguished visitors to this place were Louis Phillipe Duke of Orleans later King of France, Prince de Talleyrand, Duke de Montpensier and the Duke de la Rochefoucauld Liancourt. Marked by the Pennsylvania Historical Commission and the Bradford County Historical Society 1930"
"FLEE OR FACE THE GUILLOTINE!
This was the simple choice for loyalists of French King Louis XVI in 1793. And so it was that dozens of refugees came to this place called French Azilum on a horseshoe bend along the Susquehanna River in northeastern Pennsylvania. They lived here for 10 years until Napoleon Bonaparte, the Emperor, after the French Revolution, granted repatriation rights to citizens who had fled around the world to escape persecution."
Marker Name: Asylum
County: Bradford
Date Dedicated: 06/01/1930
Marker Type: Roadside
Location: Mount Rock lookout off US 6, 5 miles N of Wyalusing
Category: Early Settlement, Ethnic & Immigration, Government & Politics 18th Century
Website: [Web Link]
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