"Esteem, Admiration, and Love": The Marquis de Lafayette

At merely 19 years old, Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert de La Fayette of France set sail for America, defying his king's wishes. He would rise from eager volunteer to indispensable general, earning Washington’s deep personal trust. Still, the revolution he helped win in America would not save him from the one that consumed France, leaving the hero of two worlds a prisoner in his own homeland.