Marquis de Lafayette

This paper examines Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence not only as an expression of natural rights, but also as a justification of the first anti-colonial revolution. It also shows how Jefferson's declaration influenced Lafayette's draft of the French Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizens. However, Lafayette, who fought alongside Washington in the American Revolution, sided with the royalists during the French Revolution, favoring a constituional monarchy. The paper also explores the similarity in thought between Jefferson and Thomas Paine, both being Deists as well as republicans. Like Lafayette, Paine who took part in both the American and French Revolutions, but he broke with the Jacobins over the issue of regicide. Finally, the paper explores how the French Revolution influenced the Haitian Revolution, even though in the complicated politics of this French colony in the Caribbean, Toussaint L'Ouverture navigated a course between the British, the Spaniards (who occupied the eastern part of the island of Hispanola), and the French. Since it was in part a slave rebellion, rather than an anticolonial revolution, Thomas Jefferson refused to recognize formally the legitimacy of the Haitian Revolution. When Napoleon overturned Toussaint and sought to reinstitute slavery, the island finally achieved its independence. It was Napoleon's failure to retain control over Haiti that convinced him to sell Lousiana to the United States.

Maryland's Baltimore County native son, Colonel Beale Randall's life and participation in the defense of Maryland against the British in the War of 1812 is particularly poignant on this day, September 12, 2014 the Bicentennial of the Battle of North Point. 
      This short biography tells of an unheralded, but prominent 19th century Marylander who by his untiring diligence affected his community on the local, state and national levels.  Born a privileged son of an old American family, he served numerous terms in the Maryland legislature, was a recognized officer in the War of 1812, long held a seat on the Baltimore city council and was chosen by his peers to invite Lafayette to Baltimore in 1824.  Colonel Randall was an influential "Jackson man," who helped sway the state to vote for Andrew Jackson as President, was a successful businessman and entrepreneur and one of the largest stockholders in the inception of the B&O railroad.  He was a respected judge and founded a town in the new state of Iowa.  Clearly a man of vision and high energy,  he led a dynamic life as a military officer, business man and politician active in the affairs of his times on the local, state and National scenes.
      When he died in his old age at his country seat in Baltimore county, his obituary listed him as one of the "Old Defenders"...a distinct honor in Maryland.  He was a man of his times and his significant story begs to be told.

This paper surveys the biographies of individuals and groups responsible for the construction of the Huntridge neighborhood, the thoroughfare called Maryland Parkway and in particular the Huntridge Theater in Las Vegas, Nevada, concluding that the catalysts, impetus, symbolism, namesakes, international relationships, architectural and cultural importance have heretofore been unknown, unpublished and therefore not considered in determining the importance, value, viability or preservation of these historic properties and placenames.  The focus of the research is a tightly knit global group of American and French dynasties, from the American Revolution to World War II. 
Deeper focus seeks to answer why and how the Huntridge Theater could, or would be built during the stringent rationing of building materials at the time of its planning and construction. Further analysis identifies the impetus for the naming of Huntridge and of Maryland Parkway, an early thoroughfare which begins at Huntridge.
Tracing relationships and loyalties forged, then revisited in critical moments during four wars, the light dawns on the identities of the previously unpublished magnates who spawned the Las Vegas Strip and much of modern Las Vegas, their motives and sources of power, and the clues they perhaps intended us to find. 
This newly discovered provenance is also analyzed through the prism of the beleaguered state of historic preservation in what may seem the most disposable of all cities - Las Vegas, Nevada.

Between 1820 and 1823, French political life was marked by a growing number of plots against the restored Bourbon Monarchy. The organisation leading the conspiracies, the French Charbonnerie, did not survive the failure of its schemes, leaving many unanswered questions about the true extent of its power and the causes of its disappearance. During the July Monarchy, the veil had been partially lifted from this occult organisation: it appeared that the Charbonnerie had spread widely throughout the country. Its decline in power was often attributed to a lack of unified political opinion, with the socialists also believing that the low recruitment of the working class was a factor. This paper successively discusses these hypotheses and then focuses on the paradoxes of the Charbonnerie imaginary: a mix of Liberal and Enlightenment ideals, and fascination for secret societies. It takes into consideration a new source, a copy of the statutes of the association, seized in 1834 during a search at a lawyer’s house from Vienne in Isère and now conserved at the Museum of French History in Paris.

Abstract

This paper uncovers and surveys biographies of individuals responsible for the construction of the Huntridge neighborhood, the thoroughfare called Maryland Parkway and in particular the Huntridge Theater in Las Vegas, Nevada, concluding that the catalysts, impetus, symbolism, namesakes, international relationships, architectural and cultural importance have heretofore been unknown, unpublished and therefore not considered in determining the importance, value, viability or preservation of these historic properties and place names. The focus of the research is a tightly knit global group of American and French dynasties, from the American Revolution to World War II. 
I seek answers as to why and how the Huntridge Theater could, or would be built during the stringent rationing of building materials at the time of its planning and construction. Further analysis identifies the impetus for the naming of Huntridge and of Maryland Parkway, an early thoroughfare which begins at Huntridge.
Tracing relationships and loyalties forged, then revisited in critical moments during four wars, the light dawns on the identities of the previously unpublished magnates who spawned the Las Vegas Strip and much of modern Las Vegas, their motives and sources of power, and the clues they perhaps intended us to find. This newly discovered provenance is analyzed through the prism of the beleaguered state of historic preservation in what may seem the most disposable of all cities - Las Vegas, Nevada.

In 1824, General Lafayette returned to the United States after many years in France. His tour of U.S. cities became a national journalistic event. Exchanging stories through the federal postal system, newspaper editors helped their readers visualize other communities' celebrations. By doing so, they helped Americans experience the feeling of membership in one nation.

1- Kitchen Dedication with Impressive Ceremony, 2 - Lafayette's Revolution Revelations, 3 - Fort Griswold, Ct and Benedict Arnold,
4 - What News...? (Connecticut Courant, Oct. 2, 1781), 5 - Articles from the Past Year in the De Wint Digest, 6 - Beds and Bedding

The series of revolutions across southern Europe which began in 1820 (Spain, then Piedmont and Naples, and lastly the wave of conspiracies in France) might provide grounds for believing in the existence of a revolutionary “Liberal International”. The idea of an international conspiracy of liberals began as a prominent theme in ultra-royalist propaganda but was also taken at face value by many police authorities around Europe; and two modern historians, José Luis Comellas Garcia-Llera and, later, Marion S. Miller, have argued for the existence of a liberal international not as a single well-defined organisation but as a set of close-knit relationships among liberals in the various European countries, especially those of southern Europe . We do indeed find exiled Italian revolutionaries being supported in Paris, London, Madrid and Barcelona by local liberal élites. Ideas and model constitutions also circulated from country to country, for instance from Spain to Italy, where the Spanish resistance to the Napoleonic Empire and to the absolutism of Ferdinand VII enjoyed high prestige . A “Holy Alliance of Peoples” to counter the Holy Alliance of monarchs was a powerful and stirring idea for liberals: French as well as Italian Carbonari formed a corps of volunteers to defend the Spanish constitutional regime in 1823 as the French army prepared to intervene in favour of the Bourbons of Spain. The presence of foreign volunteers on Spanish soil makes one ask whether there was an international activism, if not a fully-fledged International. More fundamentally, the proliferation of international contacts forging relationships to counter the Holy Alliance casts a new, transnational light on the underground opposition within France .

Major General Gilbert du Motier, the Marquis de Lafayette, was a hero of both the American and French revolutions. Though Lafayette initially hoped that Napoleon Bonaparte would serve the cause of liberty, he was soon disillusioned. His low-key opposition and refusal to accept office under the Consulate and Empire made the Marquis de Lafayette a continuing thorn in Napoleon’s side.