General and Madam De Lafayette: Partners in Liberty's Cause in the American and French Revolutions

I found General and Madame Lafayette so well documented that the reader can imagine realistically the hero and heroine of liberty living through the main events of their time. Even well informed readers can learn a great deal….–Jean-Pierre Cap, Emeritus Oliver Edwin Williams Professor of Foreign Languages & Literatures, Lafayette College

Jason Lane provides a lively, engaging account of Lafayette’s political ideals and public career as well as an insightful description of the remarkable personal relationship between Lafayette and his wife Adrienne.–Lloyd Kramer, Author of Lafayette in Two Worlds

Lane’s dual biography of Gilbert and Adrienne Lafayette provides readers with insights into the events as much as the persons.Why did Americans of all political persuasions enthusiastically embrace Lafayette while the royalist and radical French political establishments largely rejected him?–Robert Rhodes Crout, Co-Editor, The Lafayette Papers Project

Lane’s first book offers a detailed glimpse of French society in the late 18th and early 19th centuries as seen through the lives of two aristocrats dedicated to liberty.– “Publishers Weekly”

This compelling dual biography paints a vivid portrait of two extraordinary individuals who together strove to alter the political course of two great nations at a pivotal juncture in history.–Margaret Flanagan “Booklist”

Will reward any reader interested in learning more about an extraordinary man and the astonishing eventful era in which he played so central a role.–Peyton Moss “Foreword Reviews”