CONTENTS
| Page | |
| [CHAPTER I] | |
| A Boy of the French Nobility | 1 |
| [CHAPTER II] | |
| College and Court | 10 |
| [CHAPTER III] | |
| A Boy's Ideals | 21 |
| [CHAPTER IV] | |
| The Great Inspiration | 27 |
| [CHAPTER V] | |
| First Days in America | 42 |
| [CHAPTER VI] | |
| Lafayette at the Brandywine | 52 |
| [CHAPTER VII] | |
| A Successful Failure | 62 |
| [CHAPTER VIII] | |
| Lafayette at Monmouth | 73 |
| [CHAPTER IX] | |
| The Return to France | 86 |
| [CHAPTER X] | |
| Lafayette in Virginia | 100 |
| [CHAPTER XI] | |
| The Two Redoubts | 111 |
| [CHAPTER XII] | |
| The Surrender of Yorktown | 119 |
| [CHAPTER XIII] | |
| Lionized by Two Worlds | 128 |
| [CHAPTER XIV] | |
| Gathering Clouds | 137 |
| [CHAPTER XV] | |
| Lafayette in Prison | 144 |
| [CHAPTER XVI] | |
| An Attempted Rescue | 154 |
| [CHAPTER XVII] | |
| A Welcome Release | 171 |
| [CHAPTER XVIII] | |
| A Triumphal Tour | 179 |
| [CHAPTER XIX] | |
| Last Days of Lafayette | 193 |
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| Portrait of Lafayette | [Frontispiece] |
| FACING PAGE | |
| The Council at Hopewell | [78] |
| The Surrender of Cornwallis | [126] |
| Francis Kinloch Huger | [160] |
| A Carriage in which Lafayette Rode | [186] |
| The Children's Statue of Lafayette | [196] |