PC Marquis Lafayette Reconsidered by Laura Auricchio

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Marquis Lafayette Reconsidered by Laura Auricchio
epub | 25.33 MB | English | Isbn:978-0-385-35324-3 | Author: Laura Auricchio | Year: 2014



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A major biography of the Marquis de Lafayette, French hero of the American Revolution, who, at age nineteen, volunteered to fight under George Washington; a biography that 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 justice commemorated in America's towns, streets, parks, and schools named after the French nobleman. Laura Auricchio gives us a rich portrait of the man, fully revealed, a man driven by dreams of glory and felled by tragic, human weaknesses.

In The Marquis, we come to understand the personal struggles, social quandaries, and idealistic visions that inspired an orphaned young man to cross an ocean and fight a war that was none of his concern; we see a guileless provincial whose unexpected inheritance allowed him to marry into the highest echelons of the French aristacy, and become a self-consciously awkward presence at the palace of...

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