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Auguste Levasseur
1795–1878
Best known for the vivid journal he kept while accompanying the Marquis de Lafayette across the United States in 1824–1825, this French writer and diplomat offers a close-up view of a historic tour. His work remains a lively doorway into the early republic and its emotional memory of the Revolution.
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About the author
A 19th-century French writer and diplomat, Auguste Levasseur is most closely associated with Lafayette’s celebrated return visit to the United States. He served as Lafayette’s secretary during the 1824–1825 journey and later turned that experience into the book Lafayette en Amérique, en 1824 et 1825, a firsthand travel narrative that helped preserve the atmosphere of the tour.
Levasseur’s writing is especially valued for the way it captures public ceremony, political feeling, and the bond many Americans still felt with Lafayette decades after the Revolution. For modern readers, his account is useful not just as memoir, but as a window onto how the young United States wanted to remember its origins.
Library and reference sources identify him as André-Nicolas Levasseur, also known as Auguste Levasseur, and place his life from 1795 to 1878. Clear portrait images could not be confirmed from the sources reviewed here.