The Boys' Life of Lafayette (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Boys' Life of LafayetteThis is no work of fiction. It is sober history, yet if the bare facts it tells were set forth without the connecting links, its preface might be made to look like the plot of a dime novel.It is the story of a poor boy who inherited great wealth, who ran away from home to fight for liberty and glory, who became a major-general before he was twenty years old, who knew every nook and corner of the palace at Versailles, yet was the blood brother of American Indians, who tried vainly to save the lives of his king and queen, who was in favor of law, yet remained a rebel to the end of his days, who suffered an unjust imprisonment which has well been called' 'a night five years iong who was twice practically Dictator of France, and who, in his old age, was called upon to make a great decision.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.