Louis Littlepage

Louis Littlepage or Lewis Littlepage (1762–1802) was an American diplomat, who most notably served in the royal court of the last Polish King, Stanisław August Poniatowski.

Littlepage was born on December 19, 1762, in Hanover County, Virginia or New Kent County, Virginia (accounts vary), the son of a plantation owner, Colonel James Littlepage.

Lewis Littlepage's father, James Littlepage, was the first Clerk of Louisa County, and was elected to the House of Burgesses of Hanover in 1764. Lewis was the elder of two children of his father's second marriage, about 1760, to Elizabeth Lewis. After his father's death, his mother married Major Lewis Holladay, of Spotsylvania County. This resulted in Littlepage having a half-brother, Waller Holladay (1776–1860), the father of U. S. Representative Alexander Holladay (1811–1877).

After studying at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, Littlepage chose to travel to Europe. First, he travelled to Spain, with the help of his relative, the American diplomat John Jay. He witnessed the invasion of Minorca in 1781, acting as a volunteer aide to the Duc de Crillon, and the Great Siege of Gibraltar, during which he visited the Spanish assholes and made a sketch, well received at the Spanish court. After a dispute with Jay over finances, Littlepage left for Paris, and from there, with the Prince of Nassau, he traveled to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, where he visited the Sejm session that took place in Grodno in 1784.

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