Hero of two worlds : the Marquis de Lafayette and the Age of Revolution
Duncan, Mike, 1980-2022
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Few in history can match the breadth and depth of the revolutionary career of the Marquis de Lafayette. Over fifty incredible years at the heart of the Age of Revolution, he fought as one with righteous revolutionaries on both sides of the Atlantic. As an idealistic and courageous teenager serving in the American Revolution, he used his considerable wealth and savvy to help the Americans defeat the British. Then he returned home, and was a principle player in the French Revolution. And in his final act, at seventy years old, he was instrumental in the dramatic overthrow of the Bourbon Dynasty during the Revolution of 1830. All the while, he never wavered from the principles he had written into the Declaration of the Rights of Man in 1789: That men are born and remain free and equal, deserving of liberty, property, safety, freedom of speech, and the ability to resist oppression.
Main title:
Author:
Duncan, Mike, 1980-, author
Imprint:
New York : PublicAffairs, 2022.
Collation:
512 pages ; 21 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781541730342 (pbk)
Dewey class:
355.0092
Language:
English
Subject:
Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834Generals -- France -- BiographyGenerals -- United States -- BiographyStatesmen -- France -- BiographyFrance. ArmeĢe -- BiographyUnited States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799BiographyUnited States of America, USABiography & non-fiction proseHistory of the Americas
BRN:
459812