Title | : | The Real Lafayette |
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Author | : | Thomas Fleming |
Release | : | 2012-01-19 |
Kind | : | ebook |
Genre | : | U.S. History, Books, History, Biographies & Memoirs, European History |
Size | : | 2929202 |
Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette - American Revolutionary War hero, toast of liberal Europe, and a founder of modern France - started his illustrious life as a shy, clumsy, if aristocratic, country bumpkin. Here, in this essay from New York Times bestselling historian and novelist Thomas Fleming, is Lafayette's surprising - and inspiring - story. |