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Brown Bag Lecture feat. Alan Hoffman, Translator
October 5, 2023 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Alan Hoffman, Translator of Lafayette in America in 1824 and 1825
“Lafayette and the Farewell Tour: Odyssey of an American Idol”
Contemporaries thought that Lafayette’s Farewell Tour of America in 1824 and 1825 was a unique event in our history, indeed, of world history. During the Tour, this 67-year-old former major general of the Continental Army visited all 24 states and Washington City and became a household name among roughly 12,000,000 Americans. Yet today, the Tour seems to have vanished from American history, and Americans are by and large unaware of it.
Alan Hoffman, translator of Lafayette in America in 1824 and 1825, a first-hand account of the Tour written by Lafayette’s private secretary, will describe the Tour and explain why 80 cities, towns and counties were named for Lafayette as well as streets and roads everywhere, including Lafayette streets in Providence and Pawtucket.
A retired lawyer, Alan Hoffman serves as president of the American Friends of Lafayette and the Massachusetts Lafayette Society.