Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
5/5
Audiobook12 hours
The Marquis: Lafayette Reconsidered
Written by Laura Auricchio
Narrated by Grover Gardner
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
4.5/5
()
About this audiobook
A major biography of the Marquis de Lafayette, French hero of the American Revolution, looks past the storybook general and selfless champion of righteous causes who, at the age of nineteen, volunteered to fight under George Washington, casting aside fortune and family (from one of France's oldest families; his ancestors served in the Crusades and alongside Joan of Arc) to advance the transcendent aims of liberty and justice.We see how Lafayette's reputation rose to great heights during the American Revolution, but collapsed more than a decade later during the French Revolution; how when the Bastille fell on July 14, 1789, Parisians hailed Lafayette as the French Washington, appointing him commander of their National Guard in the hope that he would be able to restore order to a city wracked by starvation and violence. As revolutionaries hurtled in radical directions and staunch monarchists dug in their heels, Lafayette lost control, remaining steadfast in his belief that the French monarchy needed to be reformed, but not abolished, and doing everything in his power to prevent an American-style republic from taking root in his native land. Formerly seen as France's heroic figure, he was now a traitor to his nation, forced to flee his country, and today remains a murky figure in French memory.
Related to The Marquis
Related audiobooks
Lafayette Union 1812: The Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lafayette and the American Revolution Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Great Upheaval Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Young Washington: How Wilderness and War Forged America's Founding Father Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Liberty is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Valley Forge Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Dawn's Early Light Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5For Liberty and Glory: Washington, Lafayette, and Their Revolutions Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mad Anthony Wayne: The Life and Legacy of the Famous Revolutionary War General Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The First Salute: A View of the American Revolution Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5War on the Run: The Epic Story of Robert Rogers and the Conquest of America's First Frontier Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Savage Kingdom: The True Story of Jamestown, 1607, and the Settlement of America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Journals of Lewis and Clark: Excerpts from The History of the Lewis and Clark Expedition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mrs. Adams in Winter: A Journey in the Last Days of Napoleon Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America's First Presidential Campaign Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Angel in the Whirlwind: The Triumph of the American Revolution Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Crowded Hour: Theodore Roosevelt, The Rough Riders, and the Dawn of the American Century Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Band of Giants: The Amateur Soldiers Who Won America's Independence Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5American Heritage History of the American Revolution Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Paul Revere's Ride Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution and the Fate of the Empire Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5George Washington: The Wonder of the Age Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Jefferson's Secrets: Death and Desire at Monticello Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Samuel Adams: A Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Culper Ring: The History and Legacy of the Revolutionary War's Most Famous Spy Ring Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Those Turbulent Sons of Freedom: Ethan Allen's Green Mountain Boys and the American Revolution Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
European History For You
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of American Cemeteries Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Our Hideous Progeny: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Professor and The Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The War on the West Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Ghost Map Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Diana: Her True Story in Her Own Words Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: with Pearl and Sir Orfeo Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Templars: The History and the Myth: From Solomon's Temple to the Freemasons Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Anglo-Saxons: A History of the Beginnings of England: 400 – 1066 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Royal Art of Poison: Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicine, and Murder Most Foul Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan and the Making of a Modern Royal Family Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Iron, Fire and Ice: The Real History that Inspired Game of Thrones Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Teutonic Knights: A Military History Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ripper: The Secret Life of Walter Sickert Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Reformation: A History Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Related podcast episodes
#117: The Monster of Italy And His Sick “Trophies” (Serial Killer) 0% found this document usefulScott Reynolds Nelson: Civil War Myths and Misinformation 0% found this document usefulHamilton v. Jefferson: The Rivalry That Shaped America 0% found this document usefulThe Whiskey Rebellion 0% found this document usefulThe Cold War - The Nature of Risk | 4 0% found this document useful042 Heather Cox Richardson, A History of the Republican Party: Ben Franklin's World: A Podcast About Early American History 100% found this document usefulRonald Reagan: The Peacemaker 0% found this document usefulPenicillin: Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the discovery of penicillin. 0% found this document usefulThe Truth About Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings 0% found this document useful
Related articles
'The Pioneers' Dives Deep Into Lives Of Northwest Territory Settlers NPRArticle
'The Pioneers' Dives Deep Into Lives Of Northwest Territory Settlers
May 8, 2019
3 min read‘Midway’ Turns The Ww II Battle Into A Cartoon AppleMagazineArticle
‘Midway’ Turns The Ww II Battle Into A Cartoon
Nov 15, 2019
3 min readThe Civil War Was Not a Mistake The AtlanticArticle
The Civil War Was Not a Mistake
Oct 31, 2017
4 min readSherman In The Balance America's Civil WarArticle
Sherman In The Balance
Dec 15, 2020
9 min read1776, not 1619 Manhattan InstituteArticle
1776, not 1619
Oct 29, 2019
5 min readThe Keeper Of Greatness The RakeArticle
The Keeper Of Greatness
Jun 8, 2018
6 min readOver The Sea To Skye The OldieArticle
Over The Sea To Skye
Sep 21, 2022
4 min readWhen New Money Meets Old Bloodlines: On America’s Gilded Age Dollar Princesses Literary HubArticle
When New Money Meets Old Bloodlines: On America’s Gilded Age Dollar Princesses
Nov 13, 2020
11 min readPicking Fights With Puritans American HistoryArticle
Picking Fights With Puritans
Mar 26, 2019
3 min readCompanions Through Time The American ScholarArticle
Companions Through Time
Jun 1, 2021
4 min readLike The Fifties Never Went Away The RakeArticle
Like The Fifties Never Went Away
Oct 13, 2022
7 min readAustralia’s War With France TracesArticle
Australia’s War With France
Nov 30, 2018
It was the era of ‘Vichy France’, a murky and mostly forgotten period following the French surrender. When the Germans occupied Paris, a conservative – borderline fascist – French puppet government sympathetic to the Nazis was installed at the spa to
4 min readTHE FIRST (and last) KING of HAITI All About HistoryArticle
THE FIRST (and last) KING of HAITI
Jan 26, 2023
PAUL CLAMMER Paul Clammer is a freelance writer and author with over 40 guidebooks for Lonely Planet and the Bradt Travel Guides' book Haiti, the first standalone book for the country in English since the 1980s. He's been travelling to Haiti since 20
8 min readHemingway’s War World War IIArticle
Hemingway’s War
Jul 31, 2018
11 min readThe Peanut King Guernica MagazineArticle
The Peanut King
Apr 19, 2022
5 min readJoan Of Arc Had Not Broken The Siege Of Orleans? All About HistoryArticle
Joan Of Arc Had Not Broken The Siege Of Orleans?
Jan 26, 2023
5 min readNAPOLEON’S POLISH LEGIONS & THE HAITIAN REVOLUTION History of WarArticle
NAPOLEON’S POLISH LEGIONS & THE HAITIAN REVOLUTION
May 11, 2023
13 min readFrom Ballroom To Battlefield History RevealedArticle
From Ballroom To Battlefield
May 11, 2023
2 min readThe Legend of Jean Lafitte Texas Highways MagazineArticle
The Legend of Jean Lafitte
Jun 25, 2020
5 min readThe Man Who Liberated The Ritz The Critic MagazineArticle
The Man Who Liberated The Ritz
Nov 24, 2022
I am indebted to Professor Kenneth Weisbrode, the historian and biographer of ambassador David Bruce, for reminding me that not only was this consummate diplomat legendary for his grace and his elegance, for his wit and for his unique triple crown as
2 min readThey Made History Country LifeArticle
They Made History
Jul 13, 2022
8 min readDodging Armageddon MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military HistoryArticle
Dodging Armageddon
Oct 11, 2022
14 min readDressing for Others: Lawrence of Arabia’s Sartorial Statements The Paris ReviewArticle
Dressing for Others: Lawrence of Arabia’s Sartorial Statements
Apr 8, 2019
9 min readAugust Victories Resound Through The Centuries Choice MagazineArticle
August Victories Resound Through The Centuries
Jul 30, 2021
7 min readWhat's In A Name? All About HistoryArticle
What's In A Name?
Sep 7, 2023
6 min readWhen Eden Rocked The RakeArticle
When Eden Rocked
Jun 7, 2019
11 min readWork Hard, Play Hard, Bernhard The RakeArticle
Work Hard, Play Hard, Bernhard
Apr 13, 2023
5 min readCrécy History of WarArticle
Crécy
Sep 6, 2018
12 min readUn Esprit Universel The RakeArticle
Un Esprit Universel
Jun 10, 2021
If you can declare yourself one of the giants upon whose shoulders Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and the English horologist George Daniels stood when devising their most profound masterpieces, you’ve already got a pretty tidy handicap in the game of being
3 min readFrance Joins the Fight Cobblestone American History and Current Events for Kids and ChildrenArticle
France Joins the Fight
Sep 1, 2021
The American colonists could not have won the Revolutionary War (1775–1783) on their own. Fortunately, France provided help in the form of money, troops, and supplies. Efforts to gain French support for an independent America began in 1776. The Conti
3 min read
Related categories
Reviews for The Marquis
Rating: 4.666666666666667 out of 5 stars
4.5/5
3 ratings1 review
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Fantastic keeps you entertained and full of history I didn't know was tied to Lafayette