Lafayette
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Lafayette: His Extraordinary Life and Legacy
By Donald MillerAry Scheffer (17951858) was an important romantic artist of neoclassic and religious subjects. His Paris house is the Musée de la Vie Romantique. He painted portraits of LouisPhilippe and family. Many Scheffer paintings are in the ...
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Lafayette
By Olivier BernierLafayette was, indeed, the hero of two worlds. Bernier's Lafayette - much of it based on previously inaccessible documents - is a man who lived the liberal ideal as few others have.
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Lafayette
By Harlow G. Unger" Unger follows Lafayette from the battlefields of North America to the palace of Versailles, where the marquis won the most stunning diplomatic victory in world history-convincing the French court to send the huge military and naval force ...
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Lafayette: Hero of the American Revolution
By Gonzague Saint BrisThe rousing story of Lafayette—aide-de-camp and “adopted son” of George Washington—exploring his vital role in the American Revolution.
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Lafayette: Lessons in Leadership from the Idealist General
By Marc LeepsonProvides an account of the life and military career of the Marquis de Lafayette, a French aristocrat who, enamored with the ideals of the American Revolution, traveled to the colonies to join the fight for democracy, and became lifelong ...
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Lafayette
By Tippecanoe County Historical Association, W.C. MaddenFounded as a "River Town" in 1825, Lafayette grew quickly and became a city in 1853. It was named after the famous French general Marquis de Lafayette, who helped America win its independence from England.
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Lafayette
By JoAnn A. GroteBiography of the French nobleman involved in the American Revolutionary War.
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Lafayette: Prisoner of State
By Paul SpaldingThis is a study of the five-year captivity of Lafayette, by a coalition of Austrian and Prussian forces during the French Revolution, including international efforts to win his release.
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Lafayette
By Harlow Giles UngerInspiring and educational, Lafayette is the dramatic life story of one of the great leaders in American and European history, swept up in the cataclysmic events that spawned the longest-lasting democracy in the New World and prolonged ...