Lafayette_Courtier to Crown Fugitive, 1757-1777

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Breathing life into the mythology.  The world knows the Hero of Two Worlds, Gilbert du Motier de La Fayette, best known today as Lafayette.  But author S.P. Grogan wants us to delve into Lafayette's early days of childhood and those major events of France in the 1760's -1770's which forged a young boy's character with the impassioned drive toward his ultimate goal: to be a victorious soldier bathed in glory.This period of young Lafayette's life, always vague with little historic facts, has been fleshed out beginning with Gilbert's rural birth in the Auvergne hills to his 19th birthday as an active member of the party set within Queen Marie Antoinette's dissolute clique.Lafayette: Courtier to Crown Fugitive reveals the untold stories:How this boy became the richest orphan in France, and those who plotted to control his fortune.His betrothal to a 12 year old girl whose marriage would bring him into the most powerful military family in France.Was Lafayette shrewd or naïve? To advance his own plans, he will purposefully offend the Royal family, and face destruction of his career.How his membership in the Masonic fraternity educated him to liberté, égalité, fraternité.And was Lafayette, merely a Soldier of Fortune, a minor footnote on the world stage, or was he the true spark that accelerated the explosive war between France and England?Follow his 'confused' flight against a Royal arrest warrant to fight for the American Colonies.Lafayette: Courtier to Crown Fugitive 1757-1777 will truly excite the reader with: Histoires de Gloire, d'Amour et Révolution  Read S. P. Grogan's other historical novels and mysteries:  Vegas Die (mobsters), Captain Cooked (Hawaiian royalty), With Revenge Comes Terror (al Qaeda terrorists), and Atomic Dreams at the Red Tiki Lounge (World War 2 fantasy)   Visit www.spgrogan.com