Hero of two worlds the Marquis de Lafayette in the age of revolution
"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...
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New York, NY :
PublicAffairs, Hachette Book Group,
2021.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: Cur non : One. The orphan Marquis
- Two: A bird in a gilded cage
- Three: Why not?
- Four: Brilliant madness
- Five: A hell of blunders, madness, and deception
- Six: The alliance
- Seven: Purchasing glory
- Eight: Red and black feathers
- Nine: The play is over
- First interlude: The liberties of all mankind : Part II: La Revolution : Ten: The no ables
- Eleven: A conspiracy of honest people
- Twelve: The catechism of France
- Thirteen: I reign in Paris
- Fourteen: To Versailles or to the lamppost
- Fifteen: The zenith of his influence
- Sixteen: An ocean of factions and commotions
- Seventeen: His circle is completed
- Second interlude: The prisoners of Olmütz : Part III: The Republican kiss : Eighteen: La grange
- Nineteen: Restoration
- Twenty: The certificate of antiquity
- Twenty-One: The charcoal burners
- Twenty-Two: The nation's guest
- Twenty-Three: The July revolution
- Twenty-Four: A tower amid the waters.
