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04443aam a2200505Ii 4500 001 B94B446690F111EA86A69E4897128E48 003 SILO 005 20200508010100 008 141112t20152014nyuab b 001 0beng d 020 $a 9780307387455 020 $a 0307387453 035 $a (OCoLC)895117180 040 $a YDXCP $b eng $e rda $c YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d YHM $d OCLCO $d NJM $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d OCL $d SAD $d GILDS $d OCL $d I3U $d OCL $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- $a n-us--- 050 4 $a DC146.L2 $b A87 2015 100 1 $a Auricchio, Laura, $e author. 245 14 $a The marquis : $b Lafayette reconsidered / $c Laura Auricchio. 250 $a First Vintage books edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Vintage Books, $c 2015. 300 $a xxvi, 409 pages : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 21 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-390) index. 505 0 $a I. From Province to Paris -- Family pride -- The outsider -- Les insurgents -- II. American patriot -- First impressions -- Disenchantment -- Alliances -- Homecomings -- Honor -- 1784 -- An "American" nobleman in Paris -- III. French reformer -- A political education -- Rights of man -- A storybook hero -- "I reign in Paris" -- Triumph -- Unflattering portraits -- Downfalls -- IV. Between two worlds -- Exile -- Homages -- Picpus. 520 $a In a biography that looks past the storybook hero who cast aside family and fortune to advance the transcendent aims of liberty and justice, Laura Auricchio gives us a rich portrait of a man driven by dreams of glory and felled by tragic, human weaknesses. We come to understand the personal struggles, social quandaries, and idealistic visions that inspired an orphaned young nobleman to cross an ocean at age nineteen to fight a war that was none of his concern. Here is the young Lafayette, removed from the French army as a result of sweeping reforms, trapped in a gilded cage until American emissaries reached Paris seeking support. In the American cause, Lafayette, whose only vision had been of martial glory, saw a way to reach his dreams, and seized it with gusto. Americans welcomed him with open arms, and he returned their affection fully. His American eÌclat was so brilliant and his enthusiasm so great that he quickly became the symbol of the Franco-American alliance that ultimately defeated Great Britain. But while Lafayette's reputation rose to great heights during the American Revolution, it collapsed during the French one. As revolutionaries hurtled in radical directions and monarchists dug in their heels, Lafayette lost control, doing everything in his power to prevent an American-style republic from taking root in his native land. Formerly seen as France's heroic figure, Lafayette was now viewed as opportunistic, a dreamer, and a traitor to his nation--and today remains a murky figure in French memory. Auricchio, drawing on substantial new research conducted in libraries, archives, museums, and private homes in France and the United States, gives us history on a grand scale as she reveals the man and his complex life, and challenges the myths that have surrounded his name for more than two centuries.--From publisher description. 600 10 $a Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, $c marquis de, $d 1757-1834. 610 10 $a France. $b ArmeÌe $v Biography. 600 17 $a Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, $c marquis de, $d 1757-1834. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00052665 610 17 $a France. $b ArmeÌe. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00539214 650 7 $a Military participation $x French. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01353722 650 0 $a Generals $z France $v Biography. 650 0 $a Statesmen $z France $v Biography. 650 0 $a Generals $z United States $v Biography. 651 0 $a United States $x Participation, French. $y Revolution, 1775-1783 $x Participation, French. 651 0 $a United States $x History $y Revolution, 1775-1783 $v Biography. 650 7 $a Generals. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00939841 650 7 $a Statesmen. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01131990 651 7 $a France. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204289 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 648 7 $a 1775-1783 $2 fast 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919896 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 655 4 $a Biography. 941 $a 1 952 $l CEAX572 $d 20200508021724.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=B94B446690F111EA86A69E4897128E48 994 $a 92 $b UINInitiate Another SILO Locator Search