The Marquis - Lafayette Reconsidered

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The Marquis: Lafayette Reconsidered
by Laura Auricchio
Knopf October 2014 ISBN-10: 0307267555 ePUB 25.3 mb

http://www.amazon.com/Marqui...aura-Auricchio/dp/0307267555

A major biography of the Marquis de Lafayette, French hero of the American Revolution, who, at age nineteen, volunteered to fight under George Washington; a biography that looks past the storybook hero and selfless champion of righteous causes who cast aside family and fortune to advance the transcendent aims of liberty and justice commemorated in America’s towns, streets, parks, and schools named after the French nobleman. Laura Auricchio gives us a rich portrait of the man, fully revealed, a man driven by dreams of glory and felled by tragic, human weaknesses.
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 answers these crucial questions, revealing the man and his complex life, and challenging and exploring the complicated myths that have surrounded his name for more than two centuries.


About the Author

Laura Auricchio, PhD in Art History, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University
Chair of Humanities, The New School for Public Engagement; Associate Professor of Art History, Parsons The New School for Design
Laura Auricchio’s areas of interest include 18th-century French and American studies, 18th-century visual culture, contemporary art, and gender studies. She is the author of the peer-reviewed book Adélaïde Labille-Guiard: Artist in the Age of Revolution (J. Paul Getty Museum, 2009) and has published peer-reviewed articles in Art Bulletin, Art Journal, Eighteenth-Century Studies, and Genders.


CONTENTS
PART ONE: FROM PROVINCE TO PARIS
Chapter 1. Family Pride
Chapter 2. The Outsider
Chapter 3. Les Insurgents

PART TWO: AMERICAN PATRIOT
Chapter 4. First Impressions
Chapter 5. Disenchantment
Chapter 6. Alliances
Chapter 7. Homecomings
Chapter 8. Honor
Chapter 9. 1784
Chapter 10. An “American” Nobleman in Paris

PART THREE: FRENCH REFORMER
Chapter 11. A Political Education
Chapter 12. Rights of Man
Chapter 13. A Storybook Hero
Chapter 14. “I Reign in Paris”
Chapter 15. Triumph
Chapter 16. Unflattering Portraits
Chapter 17. Downfalls

PART FOUR: BETWEEN TWO WORLDS
Chapter 18. Exile
Chapter 19. Homages
Chapter 20. Picpus



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