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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. No notes or highlighting. Nice older book in good condition. Year 1956. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> AVAILING themselves of a quantity of hitherto unpublished material the authors both distinguished French historians and biographers have pro- duced what is at once a penetrating analysis of one of the leading figures of the late eighteenth century and a lavishly documented record of the stirring events in which he was concerned. In his early twenties French-born Gilbert de la Fayette possessed by an ideal of liberty went to America and there helped his ‘idol’ Washington to create the United States by defeating the English armies. La Fayette was a doctrinaire whose panacea was ‘liberty’ and when he returned to France in 1781 he believed that this same panacea could be applied there with equally gratifying results. (LL)