The Perilous Life of America's Greatest Foreign Friend
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Lafayette was the key man, and a brilliant soldier, behind America's critical Revolutionary War alliance with France.\\xa0 Yet his life in his home country during the French Revolution and after may have been even more wild, and included an incredible prison break with the help of famous U.S. friends. Further, a half century after the start of the American Revolution, as an elderly man he made an astonishing tour of the United States.\\xa0\\xa0