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Hero of Two Worlds

Author : Mike Duncan
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1541730321
Total Pages : 535 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (417 download)

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Download or read book Hero of Two Worlds written by Mike Duncan and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2021-08-24 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Marquis de Lafayette

Author : Kathleen Collins
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780823941155
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Marquis de Lafayette written by Kathleen Collins and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2003-12-15 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography discusses the life and work of French soldier and political thinker, Marquis de Lafayette, and his role in the American Revolution.

Lafayette

Author : Olivier Bernier
Publisher : New Word City
ISBN 13 : 1640191003
Total Pages : 770 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Lafayette written by Olivier Bernier and published by New Word City. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historian Olivier Bernier draws an indelible portrait of the man who represented, more than anyone else, the idea of French nobility to all Americans of the early Republic and who represented to the French the idea of freedom and its American expression. Lafayette was, indeed, the hero of two worlds. Bernier's Lafayette - much of it based on previously inaccessible documents - is a man who lived the liberal ideal as few others have. In the war for American independence, this twenty-year-old was a stubborn, tenacious, and ultimately victorious commander, the favorite of George Washington with whom he developed a unique father-son relationship. Returning to Paris with yearnings for a liberalized government, he was soon caught up in the 1789 revolution, first as its champion, then as the guardian of the king, finally as the only man capable of maintaining order in 1790 and 1791. Once the king fled the capital, however, Lafayette's position became untenable, and he was forced to escape to Belgium. But there, the right-wing emigres considered him a traitor, and he was arrested and sent to Austria, where he languished in prison for years. Finally, the diplomatic efforts of George Washington and other Americans led to his release and return to France. Now, Napoleon feared him as a potential rival, a fear heightened when Lafayette went into self-imposed exile to protest Napoleon's abuse of power. During the revolution that followed Napoleon's downfall, Lafayette maintained his liberal principles as few others bothered to, and his position was vindicated by the uprising that installed the July monarchy and France's first middle-class constitution. Enriching this chronicle of a man and his age are the stories of young "Gilbert's" many loves, as well as the steadfast relationship with his adoring wife. And never far from the marquis's heart was his love for his adopted home. He maintained it through a forty-year correspondence with the Founding Fathers and an unrelenting, if often quixotic, defense of liberal ideals. For its part, the young American republic knew no grander celebrations than those thrown in honor of his return in 1824.

Lafayette in America in 1824 and 1825

Author : Auguste Levasseur
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lafayette in America in 1824 and 1825 written by Auguste Levasseur and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Lafayette: Hero of the American Revolution

Author : Gonzague Saint Bris
Publisher : Pegasus
ISBN 13 : 9781605980874
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Lafayette: Hero of the American Revolution written by Gonzague Saint Bris and published by Pegasus. This book was released on 2010-05-05 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rousing story of Lafayette—aide-de-camp and “adopted son” of George Washington—exploring his vital role in the American Revolution. In this long-overdue history of Marquis Gilbert de Lafayette, acclaimed French author Gonzague Saint Bris recounts Lafayette's invaluable contributions to the American War of Independence and, later, the French Revolution of 1789. The first study of Lafayette to appear in almost ten years, Saint Bris’ new volume recounts the young Lafayette's personal friendship with George Washington, who went so far as to refer to Lafayette as his “adopted son,” and his pivotal role as Washington’s aide-de-camp in helping establish the fledgling American nation. Lafayette’s presence at the British surrender at Yorktown is a stark reminder of just how closely our forefather's victory hinged on the help of our French allies, who were roused into action by Lafayette himself. equally absorbing and less well known is Lafayette's idealistic but naive efforts to plant the fruits of the American-style democracy he so admired in the unreceptive soil of his homeland.

The Marquis

Author : Laura Auricchio
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307387453
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book The Marquis written by Laura Auricchio and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : Harlow Giles Unger
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 0470243562
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Lafayette written by Harlow Giles Unger and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2007-08-03 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaim for Lafayette "I found Mr. Unger's book exceptionally well done. It's an admirable account of the marquis's two revolutions-one might even say his two lives-the French and the American. It also captures the private Lafayette and his remarkable wife, Adrienne, in often moving detail." -Thomas Fleming, author, Liberty!: The American Revolution "Harlow Unger's Lafayette is a remarkable and dramatic account of a life as fully lived as it is possible to imagine, that of Gilbert de Motier, marquis de Lafayette. To American readers Unger's biography will provide a stark reminder of just how near run a thing was our War of Independence and the degree to which our forefathers' victory hinged on the help of our French allies, marshalled for George Washington by his 'adopted' son, Lafayette. But even more absorbing and much less well known to the general reader will be Unger's account of Lafayette's idealistic but naive efforts to plant the fruits of the American democracy he so admired in the unreceptive soil of his homeland. His inspired oratory produced not the constitutional democracy he sought but the bloody Jacobin excesses of the French Revolution."-Larry Collins, coauthor, Is Paris Burning? and O Jerusalem! "A lively and entertaining portrait of one of the most important supporting actors in the two revolutions that transformed the modern world."-Susan Dunn, author, Sister Revolutions: French Lightning, American Light "Harlow Unger has cornered the market on muses to emerge as America's most readable historian. His new biography of the marquis de Lafayette combines a thoroughgoing account of the age of revolution, a probing psychological study of a complex man, and a literary style that goes down like cream. A worthy successor to his splendid biography of Noah Webster."-Florence King, Contributing Editor, National Review "Enlightening! The picture of Lafayette's life is a window to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century history."-Michel Aubert La Fayette

Lafayette! (Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales #8)

Author : Nathan Hale
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1683353994
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book Lafayette! (Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales #8) written by Nathan Hale and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gilbert du Motier became the Marquis de Lafayette at a young age, but he was not satisfied with the comforts of French nobility—he wanted adventure! A captain at eighteen and a major general by nineteen, he was eager to prove himself in battle. When he heard about the Revolution going on in America, he went overseas and fought alongside Alexander Hamilton and George Washington for America’s independence. Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales are graphic novels that tell the thrilling, shocking, gruesome, and TRUE stories of American history. Read them all—if you dare!

Adopted Son

Author : David A. Clary
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0553383450
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (533 download)

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Download or read book Adopted Son written by David A. Clary and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2008 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical analysis of the unique friendship between American general George Washington and the young French Marquis de Lafayette describes how their bond resulted in extraordinary success on the battlefield and in diplomatic circles, aided an American victory in the Revolutionary War, and paved the way for the French Revolution. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.

Lafayette in the Somewhat United States

Author : Sarah Vowell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1594631743
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (946 download)

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Download or read book Lafayette in the Somewhat United States written by Sarah Vowell and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Revolutionary Brothers

Author : Tom Chaffin
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1250113741
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Revolutionary Brothers written by Tom Chaffin and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 TheDeclaration 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.

A Spy Called James

Author : Anne Rockwell
Publisher : Carolrhoda Books (R)
ISBN 13 : 1467749338
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (677 download)

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Download or read book A Spy Called James written by Anne Rockwell and published by Carolrhoda Books (R). This book was released on 2016 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Told for the first time in picture book form is the true story of James Lafayette--a slave who spied for George Washington's army during the American Revolution. But while America celebrated its newfound freedom, James returned to slavery. His service hadn't qualified him for the release he'd been hoping for. For James the fight wasn't over; he'd already helped his country gain its freedom, now it was time to win his own.

Marquis de Lafayette

Author : Gregory Payan
Publisher : Powerplus
ISBN 13 : 9780823957330
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (573 download)

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Download or read book Marquis de Lafayette written by Gregory Payan and published by Powerplus. This book was released on 2002 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the life and times of the French nobleman who fought in the American Revolution, describing his success in battle and the time he spent fighting in France.

Marquis de Lafayette

Author : Hourly History
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781537585208
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (852 download)

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Download or read book Marquis de Lafayette written by Hourly History and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marquis de Lafayette The Marquis de Lafayette may be a name that sounds vaguely familiar. If you've studied even a little American history, you'll recall Lafayette as George Washington's right-hand man during the American Revolution. This remarkable man was just a teenager when he ventured across the seas from France to fight in a conflict that he was in no way obligated to participate in. Yet, here he was, this young man full of idealistic thoughts, ready to help a country set their path on the road to independence. Little did Lafayette know that this would be just the first ride among many that he would take in his lifetime. Inside you will read about... - Early Life - Farewell to France - American Revolution - France and America Once Again - An American and a French Hero - French Revolution - Going From Bad to Worse And much more! For what Lafayette accomplished in America and what he brought home to France was unmistakably unique in his own time. For over seventy years this man would be the well-known and intimate friend of world leaders on both sides of the Atlantic. The Marquis de Lafayette can truly be called an American patriot; one who tried his best to bring America's best to the world's stage. Lafayette reached out to all; the poor, the middle classes, and the nobility. He believed in freedom for all people and for that we should be truly grateful.

Lafayette, Hero of Two Worlds

Author : Stanley J. Idzerda
Publisher : Queens Museum of Art
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Lafayette, Hero of Two Worlds written by Stanley J. Idzerda and published by Queens Museum of Art. This book was released on 1989 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Lafayette: Lessons in Leadership from the Idealist General

Author : Marc Leepson
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0230105041
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Lafayette: Lessons in Leadership from the Idealist General written by Marc Leepson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an account of the life and military career of the Marquis de Lafayette, a French aristocrat who, enamored with the ideals of the American Revolution, traveled to the colonies to join the fight for democracy, and became lifelong friends with George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.

Lafayette Comes To America

Author : Louis Gottschlk
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1473384052
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (733 download)

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Download or read book Lafayette Comes To America written by Louis Gottschlk and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette or known better to history as simply Lafayette was one of the great generals of the American Revolution and is still hailed as a hero in the United States and France, having been instrumental in the French Revolution as well. This is a fascinating biography, perfect for any fan of military history.