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Hero of Two Worlds
Author | : Mike Duncan |
Publsiher | : Hachette UK |
Total Pages | : 535 |
Release | : 2021-08-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781541730328 |
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From the bestselling author of The Storm Before the Storm and host of the Revolutions podcast comes the thrilling story of the Marquis de Lafayette’s lifelong quest to defend the principles of liberty and equality A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A #1 ABA INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORE BESTSELLER Few in history can match the revolutionary career of the Marquis de Lafayette. Over fifty incredible years at the heart of the Age of Revolution, he fought courageously on both sides of the Atlantic. He was a soldier, statesman, idealist, philanthropist, and abolitionist. As a teenager, Lafayette ran away from France to join the American Revolution. Returning home a national hero, he helped launch the French Revolution, eventually spending five years locked in dungeon prisons. After his release, Lafayette sparred with Napoleon, joined an underground conspiracy to overthrow King Louis XVIII, and became an international symbol of liberty. Finally, as a revered elder statesman, he was instrumental in the overthrow of the Bourbon Dynasty in the Revolution of 1830. From enthusiastic youth to world-weary old age, from the pinnacle of glory to the depths of despair, Lafayette never stopped fighting for the rights of all mankind. His remarkable life is the story of where we come from, and an inspiration to defend the ideals he held dear.
Lafayette in America in 1824 and 1825
Author | : Auguste Levasseur |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1829 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : HARVARD:32044009577594 |
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The Marquis
Author | : Laura Auricchio |
Publsiher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 2015-08-18 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780307387455 |
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Winner of the 2015 American Library in Paris Book Award The Marquis de Lafayette at age nineteen volunteered to fight under George Washington and became the French hero of the American Revolution. In this major biography Laura Auricchio looks past the storybook hero and selfless champion of righteous causes who cast aside family and fortune to advance the transcendent aims of liberty and fully reveals a man driven by dreams of glory only to be felled by tragic, human weaknesses. Drawing on substantial new research conducted in libraries, archives, museums, and private homes in France and the United States, Auricchio, gives us history on a grand scale revealing the man and his complex life, while challenging and exploring the complicated myths that have surrounded his name for more than two centuries
Lafayette in the Somewhat United States
Author | : Sarah Vowell |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Biography |
ISBN | : 9781594631740 |
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From the bestselling author of Assassination Vacation and Unfamiliar Fishes, a humorous and insightful account of the Revolutionary War hero Marquis de Lafayette - the one Frenchman we could all agree on - and an insightful portrait of a nation's idealism and its reality.
Marquis de Lafayette
Author | : Kathleen Collins |
Publsiher | : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 2003-12-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0823941159 |
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This biography discusses the life and work of French soldier and political thinker, Marquis de Lafayette, and his role in the American Revolution.
Revolutionary Brothers
Author | : Tom Chaffin |
Publsiher | : St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 2019-11-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781250113740 |
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In a narrative both panoramic and intimate, Tom Chaffin captures the four-decade friendship of Thomas Jefferson and the Marquis de Lafayette. Thomas Jefferson and the Marquis de Lafayette shared a singularly extraordinary friendship, one involved in the making of two revolutions—and two nations. Jefferson first met Lafayette in 1781, when the young French-born general was dispatched to Virginia to assist Jefferson, then the state’s governor, in fighting off the British. The charismatic Lafayette, hungry for glory, could not have seemed more different from Jefferson, the reserved statesman. But when Jefferson, a newly-appointed diplomat, moved to Paris three years later, speaking little French and in need of a partner, their friendship began in earnest. As Lafayette opened doors in Paris and Versailles for Jefferson, so too did the Virginian stand by Lafayette as the Frenchman became inexorably drawn into the maelstrom of his country's revolution. Jefferson counseled Lafayette as he drafted The Declaration of the Rights of Man and remained a firm supporter of the French Revolution, even after he returned to America in 1789. By 1792, however, the upheaval had rendered Lafayette a man without a country, locked away in a succession of Austrian and Prussian prisons. The burden fell on Jefferson, along with Lafayette's other friends, to win his release. The two would not see each other again until 1824, in a powerful and emotional reunion at Jefferson’s Monticello. Steeped in primary sources, Revolutionary Brothers casts fresh light on this remarkable, often complicated, friendship of two extraordinary men.
Memoirs of General Lafayette
Author | : Lafayette |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2006-12-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781406813388 |
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The account of Lafayette's visit to America in 1824
Lafayette in the Age of the American Revolution
Author | : Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier marquis de Lafayette,Stanley J. Idzerda |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 576 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Generals |
ISBN | : UOM:39015028782665 |
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The second volume in this distinguished series provides a comprehensive picture of the Franco-American alliance and of the day-to-day problems of conducting the War of Independence as reported by Lafayette and his correspondents on both sides of the Atlantic. Volume II begins with Lafayette's reunion with the main army at Valley Forge in the spring of 1778, after an assignment to Albany. It follows him on his return to France in January 1779, on leave from the American army, and ends in the spring of 1780, when he was sent back to America to announce the coming of the French expeditionary force and to help formulate American plans for cooperation with the French forces. Complementing Lafayette 's personal memoirs, which open the two parts of the book, are exchanges of letters with such prominent figures as George Washington1 Henry Laurens, Benjamin Franklin, the Comte d'Estaing, John Paul Jones, and the Comte de Vergennes. The documents and letters written in English are published as they appear in the manuscripts; those written in French appear both in the original and in translation. Much of the basic material for this series, which will comprise six volumes, is drawn from Lafayette's own collection of manuscripts. A brilliant portrait of Lafayette in his own words, the books reveal much more complex elements in his character and outlook than have been apparent before.