Revolutionary Brothers: Thomas Jefferson, the Marquis de Layfayette

Revolutionary Brothers: Thomas Jefferson, the Marquis de LayfayetteThomas Jefferson and the Marquis de Lafayette shared a singularly extraordinary friendship, one involved in the making of two revolutionsand two nations. Jefferson first met Lafayette in 1781, when the young French born general was dispatched to Virginia to assist Jefferson, then the state's governor, in fighting off the British. The charismatic Lafayette, hungry for glory, could not have seemed more different from Jefferson, the reserved statesman.

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The Library’s Coolidge Auditorium

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