The Marquis: Lafayette Reconsidered

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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 become the French hero of the American Revolution. On this major biography Laura Auricchio looks past the storybook hero and selfless champion of righteous causes who cast aside circle of relatives and fortune to advance the transcendent aims of liberty and entirely reveals a man driven by dreams of glory best to be felled by tragic, human weaknesses.

Drawing on substantial new research conducted in libraries, archives, museums, and personal homes in France and america, Auricchio, gives us history on a grand scale revealing the person and his complex life, at the same time as challenging and exploring the complicated myths that experience surrounded his name for more than two centuries

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