An Account of the Life of Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Dumotier
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Excerpt from An Account of the Life of Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Dumotier: Marquis De La Fayette; Major-General in the Service of America and Noblest Patriot of the French Revolution Amid the sophistry and prodigality of aristocratic France of the waning eighteenth century, La Fayette conceived an ideal of noble humanity, and at the threshold of his life consecrated his efforts and his resources to its realization. It has been given to few men of like impulses to exercise fuller opportunities or ampler means, and none have excelled him in fidelity and constancy. Louis XIV debauched France, Louis XV flaunted profligacy before its crushed but murmuring people, and Louis XVI paid the penalty of this heritage of extravagance and oppression, in an era of passion and violence unparalleled, as it was unexampled, in the world´s history. Such was the background and the field from which La Fayette emerged at the age of nineteen years to espouse the cause of American freedom, and to which, a few years later, he returned to become the chief actor in the momentous events leading to the French revolution. Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette, was born September 6th, 1757, at the Chateau de Chavaniac in Auvergne, the home of his mother, to which she had retired while her husband, Michel Louis Christophe Roch Gilbert Du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette, fought for France in the Seven Years War. The Marquis de La Fayette, Colonel of Grenadiers under Marshal de Broglie, was killed in the battle of Minden at the age of twenty-five, a few weeks after his son was born. The young marquis was reared at Chavaniac and educated in the accomplishments and graces that were the highest aim of the courtier of that period, but the heroic strain in his character early asserted itself, and he dwelt more on the hope of encountering and conquering the wild beasts of the neighborhood than of shining at Versailles. At the age of twelve he was sent to the College du Plessis at Paris and soon afterward was transferred to the Academy at Versailles and made an officer in the Mousquetaires Noirs, which on review days took him from the schoolroom to the active command of men. Soon after he left home his mother died, and he became possessed of the large fortune of her family, with an income sufficient to determine a less serious character on a life of idleness and ease. He was, however, unattracted by the vicious pleasures then the fashion, and became the suitor of Mile. Adrienne de Noailles, daughter of the Due d´Ayen and granddaughter of the Due and Marechal de Noailles. The Noailles family was of the highest rank and character, and its history amid the vanities and corruption of this period and the trials of the Revolution endures as a monument of Christianity, love and gentleness. The Due d´Ayen was much in favor of the proposal, but the Duchess, who had made the training and instruction of her five daughters the chief object of her life, was opposed to the match because of what seemed to her traits of impetuousness in the Marquis engendered by the imperfect surveillance of his guardians and the baneful possibilities of his great wealth. This divergence of desires caused a serious though temporary estrangement between the parents, which the Duke relieved by receding from his position, while, having discovered during the interval the fundamental virtues of La Fayette´s character, Madame d´Ayen withdrew her objections. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
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