THIS MONUMENT IS ERECTED
TO COMMEMORATE AND PERPETUATE
THE MEMORY AND DEEDS OF
THE FRENCH ROYALIST REFUGEES
WHO ESCAPING FROM FRANCE
AND THE HORRORS OF ITS REVOLUTION
AND FROM THE REVOLUTION IN SAN DOMINGO
SETTLED HERE IN 1793
AND LOCATED AND LAID OUT THE TOWN OF
ASYLUM
UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE VISCOUNT DE
NOAILLES AND MARQUIS ANTOINE OMER TALON
IN 1795 LOUIS PHILIPPE, DUKE OF ORLEANS
AFTERWARDS KING OF FRANCE, VISITED HERE
THE PRINCE DE TALLEYRAND
THE DUKE DE MONTPENSIER, COUNT BEAUJOLAIS,
THE DUKE DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD DE LIANCOURT
AND MANY OTHER DISTINGUISHED FRENCHMEN
WERE VISITORS OR RESIDENTS
FOR A SHORT TIME AT ASYLUM
ERECTED IN 1916 BY JOHN W. MIX
AND CHARLES D'AUTREMONT, JR.
DESCENDANTS OF FRENCH REFUGEE SETTLERS
LAND DONATED BY GEORGE LAPORTE HEIRS
THIS MONUMENT IS ERECTED
TO COMMEMORATE AND PERPETUATE
THE MEMORY AND DEEDS OF
THE FRENCH ROYALIST REFUGEES
WHO ESCAPING FROM FRANCE
AND THE HORRORS OF ITS REVOLUTION
AND FROM THE REVOLUTION IN SAN DOMINGO
SETTLED HERE IN 1793
AND LOCATED AND LAID OUT THE TOWN OF
ASYLUM
UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE VISCOUNT DE
NOAILLES AND MARQUIS ANTOINE OMER TALON
IN 1795 LOUIS PHILIPPE, DUKE OF ORLEANS
AFTERWARDS KING OF FRANCE, VISITED HERE
THE PRINCE DE TALLEYRAND
THE DUKE DE MONTPENSIER, COUNT BEAUJOLAIS,
THE DUKE DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD DE LIANCOURT
AND MANY OTHER DISTINGUISHED FRENCHMEN
WERE VISITORS OR RESIDENTS
FOR A SHORT TIME AT ASYLUM
ERECTED IN 1916 BY JOHN W. MIX
AND CHARLES D'AUTREMONT, JR.
DESCENDANTS OF FRENCH REFUGEE SETTLERS
LAND DONATED BY GEORGE LAPORTE HEIRS