The last adieu Lafayette's triumphant return, the echoes of revolution, and the gratitude of the Republic
"'Memories of the Revolution have come back to life...' In the summer of 1824, the aging Marquis de Lafayette, defeated politically and distraught over the fate of liberty in Europe, set sail one last time from France for America after an absence of forty years. Across the sea waited a nation transf...
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[New York] :
Harper Horizon, an imprint of HarperCollins Focus LLC,
[2025].
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Table of Contents:
- Prelude : an episode that belongs to the poetry of history
- Part one. The walking monument
- The shrine of sainted excellence
- An eagle of glorious omen or a turkey buzzard?
- Disappointments and disgusts
- His heart is fixed upon a voyage to America
- Interlude: The nation's guest
- Part two. See, the conqu'ring hero comes!
- Happy omens
- Memories of the revolution have come back to life
- It surpasses my imagination, I know
- Where independence was declared
- A cherished father
- They who sin against the liberty of their country
- Republics are not ungrateful
- The approaching crisis
- Part three. The grand voyage
- The living and the dead
- If only you knew these poor Indians!
- Vive la liberte! Vive l'ami de l'Amerique! Vive Lafayette!
- Majestic river, Republican shores
- General Lafayette and General Jackson marched arm in arm
- I exclaim we are sinking!
- In 1776, a wilderness
- In 1815, a civilized community!
- Here we are approaching the ocean
- Part four. The last adieu
- The Lord will not permit it to rain on that day
- Never to meet again, unless beyond the grave
- Go then, our beloved friend
- Epilogue : when Lafayette was here.
