------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transcriber’s Note: This version of the text cannot represent certain typographical effects. Italics are delimited with the ‘_’ character as _italic_. Bold-faced or blackletter characters are delimited with ‘=’ as =bold=. A carat ‘^’ is used to indicate the occasional superscripted characters. If multiple characters are raised, they are enclosed in brackets, e.g., G^{en}. The position of most illustrations have been moved slightly to fall on paragraph breaks. Full-page illustrations were not included in the pagination. Minor errors, attributable to the printer, have been corrected. Please see the transcriber’s note at the end of this text for details regarding the handling of any textual issues encountered during its preparation. [Illustration: La Fayette [FROM THE PORTRAIT GALLERY OF EMINENT MEN AND WOMEN.] ] THE LIFE OF LA FAYETTE ------- THE KNIGHT OF LIBERTY IN TWO WORLDS AND TWO CENTURIES. BY LYDIA HOYT FARMER, AUTHOR OF “THE BOYS’ BOOK OF FAMOUS RULERS,” “GIRLS’ BOOK OF FAMOUS QUEENS,” “A STORY BOOK OF SCIENCE,” “THE PRINCE OF THE FLAMING STAR,” ETC. [Illustration] NEW YORK: THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO., 13 ASTOR PLACE. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _Copyright_, BY THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO. 1888. ---------------------------------------------------------------- TYPOGRAPHY BY J. S. CUSHING & CO., BOSTON. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DEDICATED TO =My Husband=. PREFACE. THE life of the General Marquis de La Fayette is intimately connected with the two most important epochs in the history of both France and America. His name binds together these nations by indissoluble bonds of sympathy; and Washington and La Fayette will forever be found side by side in the annals of history. As a large portion of the material presented in this volume has been gathered from French works never before translated and which are now out of print, and also from original files of newspapers, and various manuscripts written by members of the La Fayette family, a more complete life of General La Fayette is here offered than has before appeared, either in this country or in Europe. THE AUTHOR. CONTENTS.