THE BOYS' LIFE OF LAFAYETTE [Illustration: MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE From an engraving by Jones] The Boys' Life of LAFAYETTE by Helen Nicolay Illustrated Harper & Brothers Publishers New York and London CONTENTS CHAP. PAGE Preface............................... ix I. Warriors and Wild Beasts.............. 1 II. Educating a Marquis................... 9 III. A New King............................ 19 IV. An Unruly Courtier.................... 29 V. Leading a Double Life................. 39 VI. A Sea-turn............................ 48 VII. An American Pilgrimage................ 57 VIII. An Astonishing Reception.............. 64 IX. Proving Himself a Soldier............. 72 X. Letters............................... 81 XI. A Fool's Errand....................... 91 XII. Farce and Treachery................... 104 XIII. A Liaison Officer..................... 113 XIV. Near-mutiny and near-imprisonment..... 122 XV. Help--and Disappointment.............. 129 XVI. Black Treachery....................... 139 XVII. Preparing for the Last Act............ 149 XVIII. Yorktown.............................. 158 XIX. "The Wine of Honor"................... 168 XX. The Passing of Old France............. 180 XXI. The Tricolor.......................... 191 XXII. The Sans-culottes..................... 200 XXIII. Popularity and Prison................. 208 XXIV. South Carolina to the Rescue!......... 221 XXV. Volunteers in Misfortune.............. 235 XXVI. Exiles................................ 246 XXVII. A Grateful Republic................... 258 XXVIII. Leave-takings......................... 269 XXIX. President--or King-maker.............. 276 XXX. Seventy-six Years Young............... 289 Index................................. 301 ILLUSTRATIONS MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE................ _Frontispiece_ THE MANOR-HOUSE OF CHAVANIAC........ _Facing p._ 6 FRANKLIN AT THE FRENCH COURT........ " 42 WASHINGTON AND THE COMMITTEE OF CONGRESS AT VALLEY FORGE.................. " 94 VALLEY FORGE—WASHINGTON AND LAFAYETTE " 94 THE BATTLE OF MONMOUTH............... " 110 THE BASTILLE......................... " 194 SIEGE OF THE BASTILLE................ " 194 MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE................. " 262 MADAME DE LAFAYETTE.................. " 262 MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE AND LOUIS-PHILIPPE " 286 [Pg ix]PREFACE This is no work of fiction. It is sober history; yet if the bare facts it tells were set forth without the connecting links, its preface might be made to look like the plot of a dime novel.