chastellus

Updated: June 29, 2025

Here Governor John Langdon resided from 1782 until the time of his death in 1819 a period during which many an illustrious man passed between those two white pillars that support the little balcony over the front door; among the rest Louis Philippe and his brothers, the Ducs de Montpensier and Beaujolais, and the Marquis de Chastellus, a major-general in the French army, serving under the Count de Rochambeau, whom he accompanied from France to the States in 1780.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich - An Old Town By the Sea