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The Marquis: Lafayette Reconsidered

America knows Lafayette as a storybook general, a selfless champion of righteous causes who volunteered to fight under George Washington, casting aside fortune and family to advance the transcendent aims of liberty and justice.

But, as Laura Auricchio reveals in her major new biography of the Marquis of Lafayette, in France it was another story. When the Bastille fell on July 17, 1789, Parisians hailed Lafayette as the French Washington, hopeful that he could restore order to a city wracked by starvation and violence. How did Lafayette fail? Find out why he came to be seen as a traitor to his nation, and today remains a murky figure in French history.











When: Fri., Oct. 24, 2014 at 12:00 pm
Where: The 92nd Street Y, New York
1395 Lexington Ave.
212-415-5500
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America knows Lafayette as a storybook general, a selfless champion of righteous causes who volunteered to fight under George Washington, casting aside fortune and family to advance the transcendent aims of liberty and justice.

But, as Laura Auricchio reveals in her major new biography of the Marquis of Lafayette, in France it was another story. When the Bastille fell on July 17, 1789, Parisians hailed Lafayette as the French Washington, hopeful that he could restore order to a city wracked by starvation and violence. How did Lafayette fail? Find out why he came to be seen as a traitor to his nation, and today remains a murky figure in French history.

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