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Veneered Traveling Chest with Drawer
Frederic Franck de la Roche was an aide-de-camp to the Marquis de Lafayette during the Revolutionary War. He may have used this traveling cast when he was an officer in the American army. At the time of his death in 1805, he was a member of the Society of the Cincinnati, an order exclusive to Washington's former generals and their descendents. Although his family was French, he became an American citizen after the war. |