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The Marquis de Lafayettethe Frenchman who fought in the American Revolutionwas the only foreigner to hold a major position among the Founding Fathers of the new nation. From his arrival in 1777 until, a century and a half later, the words Lafayette, we are here! stirred support for American intervention in World War I, the evolving image of Lafayette reflected popular opinion on various domestic and foreign issues. Emblem of Liberty, the first comprehensive survey of Lafayette as a symbolic figure in American intellectual history, examines the compound image of the man and the ideas he represented. Professor Anne C. Loveland has based this wide-ranging study upon the massive Lafayette manuscript collection at Cornell University as well as a great variety of other sources. Lafayette was popularly regarded as a model patriot aiding the cause of liberty and mankindan example of the public and private virtue necessary to the perpetuation of the American republic. He was also seen as benefactor and later patriarch of the United States, a Founding Father who served as judge of the success or failure of the republican experiment. In addition as leader for a time of the French Revolution a

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Author

Loveland, Anne C.

Publisher

LSU Press; Louisiana State University Press

Published

1971

Language

EN

ISBN

9780807108048

Category

biography

Subjects

Memoir, Biography, Biography & Autobiography

Updated

2026-03-25