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Hello, and welcome to episode 313 of Ben Franklin's World.

The podcast dedicated to helping you learn more about how the people and events of our

early American past have shaped the present-day world we live in.

And I'm your host, Liz Covart.

You know that America's favorite fighting Frenchman is Marquita Lafayette, but what do

we really know about Lafayette in his life?

How and why did this French-born noble end up fighting in the scrappy, rag-tag-continental

army during the American War for Independence?

Mike Duncan, the historian behind the award-winning podcast The History of Rome, and the popular

History Podcasts Revolutions, has written a book about Lafayette called Hero of Two Worlds,

the Marquita Lafayette in the Age of Revolution.

And Mike joins us today to help us investigate the life of the Marquita Lafayette and gain

some answers to our questions.

Now during our investigation, Mike reveals the important role classical political thought

and theory played in the Age of Revolutions and in Lafayette's political thinking, details

about Lafayette's early life and education as a French noble.

And how and why the Marquita Lafayette became involved in two revolutions, the American

Revolution and the French Revolution.

But first, what are you doing on Thursday October 28th at 6.30pm Eastern?

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