Excerpt from With Lafayette in AmericaAnd then the old lady died and I heard the name of Lafayette no more. In the histories he was dismissed with a brief mention that seemed inadequate to explain the enthusiasm that he had aroused so generally in his lifetime. Weighed in the cold balance of posterity his contribution to American freedom seemed no greater than that of a half-dozen other foreign-born officers. But to the story of Lafayette there was yet an other chapter.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.