Dangerously Amiable
Nathan Perl-Rosenthal: Lafayette Reconsidered, 16 February 2017
The Marquis: Lafayette Reconsidered
by Laura Auricchio.
Vintage, 432 pp., £11.99, August 2015,978 0 307 38745 5 Show More
by Laura Auricchio.
Vintage, 432 pp., £11.99, August 2015,
“... and the contrast with the success he had enjoyed in America, has long interested scholars. Laura Auricchio writes that this seeming paradox was what first drew her to the subject. A common explanation is that Lafayette’s social background made him better suited to succeed in the United States than in revolutionary France. His genteel manner and ... ”