APTER VIII
LAFAYETTE AT MONMOUTH 73

CHAPTER IX
THE RETURN TO FRANCE 86

CHAPTER X
LAFAYETTE IN VIRGINIA 100

CHAPTER XI
THE TWO REDOUBTS 111

CHAPTER XII
THE SURRENDER OF YORKTOWN 119

CHAPTER XIII
LIONIZED BY TWO WORLDS 128

CHAPTER XIV
GATHERING CLOUDS 137

CHAPTER XV
LAFAYETTE IN PRISON 144

CHAPTER XVI
AN ATTEMPTED RESCUE 154

CHAPTER XVII
A WELCOME RELEASE 171

CHAPTER XVIII
A TRIUMPHAL TOUR 179

CHAPTER XIX
LAST DAYS OF LAFAYETTE 193

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

PORTRAIT OF LAFAYETTE _Frontispiece_

FACING PAGE THE COUNCIL AT HOPEWELL 78

THE SURRENDER OF CORNWALLIS 126

FRANCIS KINLOCH HUGER 160

A CARRIAGE IN WHICH LAFAYETTE RODE 186

THE CHILDREN'S STATUE OF LAFAYETTE 196

LAFAYETTE

CHAPTER I

A BOY OF THE FRENCH NOBILITY

Among the rugged Auvergne Mountains, in the southern part of France,
stands a castle that is severe and almost grim in its aspect. Two bare
round towers flank the building on the right and on the left. Rows of
lofty French windows are built across the upper part of the front, and
the small, ungenerous doorway below has a line of portholes on either
side that suggest a thought of warlike days gone by.

This castle, built in the fourteenth century, is called the Chateau de
Chaviniac de Lafayette. Though it was burned to the ground in 1701, it
was rebuilt as nearly like the earlier structure as possible; hence it
represents, as it stands, the chivalrous days of the crusading period
and so forms a fitting birthplace for a hero. In this half-military
chateau was born one of the most valiant champions of liberty that
any country has ever produced--the Marquis de Lafayette.

The climate of the Haute-Loire--the highlands of Auvergne--is harsh;
it has been called the French Siberia. There are upland moors like
deserts across which sweep fierce winds, where the golden broom and
the purple heather--flowers of the ba