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Auguste Levasseur

1795–1878

Best known as the secretary who accompanied the Marquis de Lafayette on his celebrated 1824–1825 tour of the United States, he left behind one of the most vivid firsthand accounts of that journey. His writing captures both the public excitement around Lafayette and the texture of early American life.

2 Audiobooks

Lafayette in America in 1824 and 1825, Vol. 1 (of 2)

Lafayette in America in 1824 and 1825, Vol. 1 (of 2)

by Auguste Levasseur

Lafayette in America in 1824 and 1825, Vol. 2 (of 2)

Lafayette in America in 1824 and 1825, Vol. 2 (of 2)

by Auguste Levasseur

About the author

A French writer and traveling companion of the Marquis de Lafayette, Auguste Levasseur is chiefly remembered for recording Lafayette’s return visit to the United States in 1824–1825. Serving as Lafayette’s secretary, he observed the tour up close and turned it into a detailed narrative that has remained valuable to readers interested in the era.

His best-known work is Lafayette in America in 1824 and 1825, a journal-style account of the trip. Because it blends eyewitness reporting with the perspective of someone in Lafayette’s inner circle, it offers a lively picture of ceremonies, political culture, and everyday scenes in the young republic.

Reliable biographical details about Levasseur himself are relatively sparse in the sources I could confirm, so he is often known more through this book than through a fully documented personal biography. Even so, his work endures as an engaging historical record of a remarkable moment in French-American history.