Author: Charles SumnerPublisher:
ISBN: 9783337762568
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Lafayette
Author: Charles SumnerPublisher:
ISBN: 9783337762568
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Lafayette
Author: Charles SumnerLafayette; The Faithful One
Author: Charles SumnerPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780484865524
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Excerpt from Lafayette; The Faithful One: Lecture Bent o'er her babe, her eye dissolved in dew, The big drops mingling with the milk he drew.* The mother died soon after, leaving her child alone in the world, with rank and fortune such as few possess. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
LAFAYETTE THE FAITHFUL 1
Author: Charles 1811-1874 SumnerPublisher:
ISBN: 9781374155336
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 54
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Lafayette
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780371381847
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore ...
Author: George Peabody LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dictionary catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 854
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Lafayette in America in 1824 and 1825
Author: Auguste LevasseurPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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Lafayette
Author: Olivier BernierPublisher: New Word City
ISBN: 1640191003
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 431
Book Description
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.
The Marquis de la Fayette in the America
Author: Charlemagne TowerPublisher: Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN: 1596051876
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
Comparatively few people of the present generation are aware of the inestimable benefits which the French nation conferred upon our forefathers during the American Revolution, at a time when America was without credit abroad and when our ca -Charlemagne Tower, Jr., in the Preface In this 1895 biography of one of the key figures of the American Revolution, writer and diplomat Tower traces the career of the Marquis de La Fayette from his arrival in America in 1777 until his return to France after the surrender of Cornwallis in 17 These two vital volumes are an insightful look at a period of American history during which the fledgling nation looked abroad for sustenance and succor. CHARLEMAGNE TOWER, JR. (1848-1923), son of American financier Charlemagne Tower, was trustee of the University of Pennsylvania and president of its department of archaeology and paleontology. He served as U.S. minister to Austria-Hungary from 1897 to 1
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