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A major biography of the Marquis de Lafayette, French hero of the North american Revolution, looks past the storybook general and selfless champ of righteous triggers who, at age 19, volunteered to battle under George Washington, casting aside bundle of money and family (in one of France's oldest households; his ancestors served in the Crusades and alongside Joan of Arc) to improve the transcendent aims of liberty and justice. We see how Lafayette's reputation rose to great levels during the North american Trend, but collapsed more than a decade later during the French Trend; how when the Bastille fell on July 14, 1789, Parisians hailed Lafayette as the French Washington, appointing him commander of their National Officer in the hope that he'd be able to reestablish order to a city wracked by hunger and assault. As revolutionaries hurtled in radical directions and staunch monarchists dug in their pumps, Lafayette lost control, left over steadfast in his opinion that the French monarchy needed to be reformed, but not abolished, and doing everything in his capacity to prevent an American-style republic from taking root in his local land. Formerly seen as France's heroic figure, he was now a traitor to his nation, obligated to flee his country, and today remains a murky figure in French storage area.
