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Représentation par Jean Marie Joseph Bove du retour de La Fayette aux États-Unis : « Un grand homme appartient à l’Univers tout entier. » Blancheteau Collection/Cornell University Library/Wikimedia Commons

La Fayette a aidé les Américains à renverser le cours de la guerre d’indépendance – et à forger un sentiment d’identité nationale

Matthew Smith, Miami University

Accueilli comme un héros de retour au pays, le marquis de La Fayette effectua une grande tournée aux États-Unis en 1824-1825, juste avant le 50ᵉ anniversaire de l’indépendance.
John Caspar Wild painted ‘View of Cincinnati From Covington’ in 1835, as the city was booming. Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal/Google Art Project via Wikimedia Commons

Cincinnati, where Vance converted, gives a glimpse of Catholicism’s history in America’s heartland

Matthew Smith, Miami University

For more than a century, anti-Catholicism was a powerful force in the region’s culture and politics. But religious pluralism ultimately triumphed in the ‘Queen City.’
Jean Marie Joseph Bove’s depiction of Lafayette returning to the U.S. The caption says, ‘A great man belongs to the whole universe.’ Blancheteau Collection/Cornell University Library via Wikimedia Commons

Lafayette helped Americans turn the tide in their fight for independence – and 50 years later, he helped forge the growing nation’s sense of identity

Matthew Smith, Miami University

Hailed as a returning hero, the Marquis de Lafayette made a grand tour of the US in 1824-25, just before the country’s 50th birthday.

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