CONTENTS

  1. [Preface]
  1. [Warriors and Wild Beasts]
  2. [Educating a Marquis]
  3. [A New King]
  4. [An Unruly Courtier]
  5. [Leading a Double Life]
  6. [A Sea-turn]
  7. [An American Pilgrimage]
  8. [An Astonishing Reception]
  9. [Proving Himself a Soldier]
  10. [Letters]
  11. [A Fool's Errand]
  12. [Farce and Treachery]
  13. [A Liaison Officer]
  14. [Near-mutiny and near-imprisonment]
  15. [Help—and Disappointment]
  16. [Black Treachery]
  17. [Preparing for the Last Act]
  18. [Yorktown]
  19. ["The Wine of Honor"]
  20. [The Passing of Old France]
  21. [The Tricolor]
  22. [The Sans-culottes]
  23. [Popularity and Prison]
  24. [South Carolina to the Rescue!]
  25. [Volunteers in Misfortune]
  26. [Exiles]
  27. [A Grateful Republic]
  28. [Leave-takings]
  29. [President—or King-maker]
  30. [Seventy-six Years Young]
  1. [Index]

ILLUSTRATIONS

  1. [MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE]
  2. [THE MANOR-HOUSE OF CHAVANIAC]
  3. [FRANKLIN AT THE FRENCH COURT]
  4. [WASHINGTON AND THE COMMITTEE OF CONGRESS AT VALLEY FORGE]
  5. [VALLEY FORGE—WASHINGTON AND LAFAYETTE]
  6. [THE BATTLE OF MONMOUTH]
  7. [THE BASTILLE]
  8. [SIEGE OF THE BASTILLE]
  9. [MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE]
  10. [MADAME DE LAFAYETTE]
  11. [MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE AND LOUIS-PHILIPPE]

PREFACE