#1480 Ten Things About Lafayette

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🗓️ 1 February 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Lindsay Chervinsky joins us to discuss the Marquis de Lafayette. Lafayette was only 19 years old when he arrived in America, and had no combat experience, and yet his service helped win the American Revolution. Inspired by the ideals of the American Revolution, and with the help of Jefferson, he wrote the Declaration of the Rights of Man which today remains enshrined in France's constitution.

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Mentioned on this episode: Revolutionary Brothers: Thomas Jefferson, the Marquis de Lafayette, and the Friendship That Helped Forge Two Nations by Tom Chaffin, Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution by Mike Duncan

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0:00.0	Good day, Thomas Jefferson Hour podcast listeners.
0:03.7	And as always, thank you so much for taking the time to listen.
0:07.3	We do so appreciate it.
0:09.2	We also very much appreciate those of you who have written into the show
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0:27.6	and that's all I'll say about that.
0:30.4	What a fun conversation.
0:32.3	And what a fascinating man, Lafayette.
0:34.9	Yeah, I knew very little about him.
0:36.5	I'm always shocked at my ignorance.
0:38.1	I don't know why.
0:38.8	I should, by this time, be so aware of it.
0:42.0	But I read a couple of biographies on him.
0:44.4	One that Lindsey's suggestion and the other of one that I found
0:49.0	in my own research.
0:50.3	And I found him utterly fascinating.
0:53.2	And I was surprised that how many Lafayette lives there were.
0:57.1	So one book is by Mike Duncan,
0:58.8	a hero of two worlds, the Marquis de Lafayette and the Age of Revolution.
1:02.6	That's the one that Lindsey recommended.
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