![]() ![]() ![]() battle sites and talked to history-loving locals, including reenactors, to create a contemporary framework for Lafayette's adventures. The book then swoops back to Lafayette's early life as France's richest orphan, his shocking decision at 19 to leave his pregnant wife and risk life and limb in a land where he had no ties, and his many years of devoted service to the revolutionary cause are set out with clarity and humor. ![]() Thus, the return of Lafayette was a huge, momentarily unifying national event that led directly to the naming of the Lafayettes, Fayettes, and Fayettevilles that dot our map. For generations raised on tales of the Revolutionary glory, the deflating dying off of its heroes revealed something familiar to us in 2015: The young country's regions and factions didn't much care for each other. Her book opens in 1824, when the elderly Marquis made a triumphal return tour of his old stomping grounds. ![]() Vowell explicitly seeks to flesh out our bare-bones knowledge. ![]()
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