CONTENTS

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[CHAPTER I]
A Boy of the French Nobility1
[CHAPTER II]
College and Court10
[CHAPTER III]
A Boy's Ideals21
[CHAPTER IV]
The Great Inspiration27
[CHAPTER V]
First Days in America42
[CHAPTER VI]
Lafayette at the Brandywine52
[CHAPTER VII]
A Successful Failure62
[CHAPTER VIII]
Lafayette at Monmouth73
[CHAPTER IX]
The Return to France86
[CHAPTER X]
Lafayette in Virginia100
[CHAPTER XI]
The Two Redoubts111
[CHAPTER XII]
The Surrender of Yorktown119
[CHAPTER XIII]
Lionized by Two Worlds128
[CHAPTER XIV]
Gathering Clouds137
[CHAPTER XV]
Lafayette in Prison144
[CHAPTER XVI]
An Attempted Rescue154
[CHAPTER XVII]
A Welcome Release171
[CHAPTER XVIII]
A Triumphal Tour179
[CHAPTER XIX]
Last Days of Lafayette193

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]


LAFAYETTE


CHAPTER I

A Boy of the French Nobility