OCR Text |
Show gS a result of our participtation in the war tho French have discovered the greatness of Lafayette. A great national hero is Lafayette, but not in France. French school histories have never celebrated "Washington's friend. He is remembered in French history chiefly for the small part he played in the French revolution which has always been more interesting to Frenchmen than our little affair; of more tremendous importance, too. And Lafayette did not figure as a hero to tho masses in the French revolution. revolu-tion. A royalist, true to royalty, his memory has not been cherished by the French democracy of the twentieth century. But ho fought for our freedom and we love him; and now that Frenchmen understand that our sympathy for them is in a measure inspired by the affection we bear to Lafayette they too esteem his memory as of a hero to whom his country is indebted for a precious heritage. Town Talk. |