Auguste Levasseur
André-Nicolas Levasseur (also known as Auguste Levasseur) was a 19th-century French writer and diplomat known in the United States for accompanying the
Lafayette's secretary
Levasseur is better known in the English-speaking world as the personal secretary of Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, during his last visit to the United States, from July 1824 to September 1825.[1]
In 1829, he published his travel's notes and memoirs in two volumes with the title of Lafayette en Amérique, en 1824 et 1825 ou Journal d'un voyage aux États-Unis. That same year, one translation appeared in German and two in English (New York City and Philadelphia). A fourth translation, this time in Dutch, was published in 1831. Since then, Levasseur's work has been an important source of information to historians. It continues to be cited as an important primary source; particularly as an account's witness of the events surrounding Lafayette's celebrated visit.[2]
French diplomat to Haiti and Mexico
After gaining prominence through the publication of Lafayette's memories (or travel log) Levasseur became active in the French international arena. In 1838 he was appointed as consul to
In 1843, while Haiti struggled between new reform liberal forces and the
Not long after failing as a diplomat in Haiti, Levasseur was appointed again to another French imperial intervention in the Americas: the case of Mexico.[7]
References
- OCLC 402276544.
- ^ Franklin, Wayne (August 2009). ""Everything was Subordinated to Him": Cooper's Resistance to Lafayette". Keynote Address- Presented at the 16th Cooper Seminar, James Fenimore Cooper: His Country and His Art at the State University of New York College at Oneonta, July 2007. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
- OCLC 609314178.
- OCLC 6413840.
- OCLC 441946940.
- ISBN 0813522390.
- ISBN 0807813397.
Sources
- Levasseur, Auguste (1829). Lafayette en Amérique, en 1824 et 1825 ou Journal d'un voyage aux États-Unis. Paris: Baudouin. OCLC 654586143.
- Lavasseur, Auguste (1829). Lafayette in America, in 1824 and 1825: or, Journal of travels, in the United States. New York: White, Gallaher & White. OCLC 847833282.
- Levasseur, Auguste (1829). Lafayette in America in 1824 and 1825, or, Journal of a voyage to the United States. Philadelphia: Carey & Lea. OCLC 11584768.
- Levasseur, Auguste (1831). Reis door de Vereenigde Staten van Noord-Amerika : in de jaren 1824 en 1825, door den Generaal Lafayette. Zutphen: W.J. Thieme. OCLC 228669733.
- Levasseur, Auguste (1829). Reise des General Lafayette durch Amerika, in den Jahren 1824 und 1825. Naumburg: Wildsche Verlags-Buchhandlung. OCLC 32677143.
- Turner, Martha L. (Winter 1984). "Lafayette's Tour of Georgia: The Observations of Auguste Levasseur". The Georgia Historical Quarterly. 68 (4): 558–568. OCLC 4897607126.
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