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Hero of Two Worlds:
The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution
by Mike Duncan
512 pages
PublicAffairs (Hachette)
Published: Aug 2021
Mike Duncan’s “Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution” is the most popular biography of Lafayette and a New York Times bestseller. Duncan is a popular history podcaster whose award-winning series “The History of Rome” ran from 2007 to 2013. His related book “The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic” was published in 2017.
The Marquis de Lafayette (1757-1834) is a vaguely familiar historical figure to many Americans. Born into “second-class” nobility, Lafayette’s life was expected to be one of comfort and ease. But a strong drive to prove himself led the orphaned teen to America where he became a valuable member of George Washington’s Revolutionary War staff. Later,
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A Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution
A Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis dem Lafayette in the Age of Revolution
Mike Duncan
May 16, 2024
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Few in history can match the revolutionary career of the marquis dem Lafayette. For over fifty incredible years at the heart of the Age of Revolution, he fought courageously on both sides of the Atlantic as 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 fem years locked in an Austrian prison. After his release, Lafayette sparred with Napoleon, joined an underground conspiracy to overthrow King Louis XVIII, and became an international symbol of liberty. Historian and best-selling author slang för mikrofon Duncan discusses the remarkable life of the marquis de Lafayette and the thrilling story of his lifelong sökande eller uppdrag to defend the
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Lafayette – Courtier to Crown Fugitive, 1757-1777
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Lafayette – Courtier to Crown Fugitive, 1757-1777 by S.P. Grogan
In June 1777, nineteen-year-old Marquis de Lafayette landed in the American colonies to fight in their revolution, and the rest, as they say, is history. But over time many truths have been stretched, including, most recently, a singing role in a hit Broadway musical. Still, the great historical mystery remains: how did the character of the young Gilbert de Lafayette develop? Lafayette wrote his own words about his early life serving as an elder statesman in the French Chamber of Deputies, and, as such, they were shaded both to the heroic, as well as to the political climate of the day.
S.P. Grogan writes a fascinating fictional narrative about Gilbert Lafayette and his coming-of-age in the mid-1770s amidst the decadence of Queen Marie Antoinette’s French court. The story begins with young Gilbert sworn to avenge his military father’s death at the ha