A powerful book for me. Du Plessix Gray writes the book as a memoir of her parents - it is, of course, also a memoir about her own life. Her parents were Russian and French emigres who saw the revolution, and two great wars before coming to the United States. Many members of the family are in th...
But since his adolescence he’d aspired to be a soldier and experience battle, and he also tended to be very anti-British. In 1778 France decided to side with America’s rebellious colonists; great numbers of distinguished French citizens—most notably the twenty-four-year-old Marquis de Lafayette a...