Comparison Between France: Antoinette And Lafayette

It was here that Lafayette decided to stop; after the next eight years spent in prison, he decided that he was done fighting for France. Because of Lafayette’s stubbornness and lack of self-preservation, his hamartia, he came back with a cold heart regarding his country’s government. Napoleon was now in power, and he was kinder than Marie Antoinette. Napoleon gave Lafayette a seat in the Chamber of Deputies and offered a seat in the senate, but Marquis de Lafayette only accepted the vice presidency in the Chamber of Deputies. By now, Lafayette’s fortune and properties were seized, and the majority of his family was either separated from him or decapitated by Marie Antoinette. He was left to live with what his wife had owned as a family member
He chose to instead aid King Louis Philippe I in constructing the constitutional monarch of France (Source 2). It can be inferred that this sitting and watching was learned by his great friend Washington, who, before his parting of office, and signed his farewell letter: “The duty of holding a neutral conduct may be inferred, without anything more, from the obligation which justice and humanity impose on every nation, in cases in which it is free to act, to maintain inviolate the relations of peace and amity towards other nations. The inducements of interest for observing that conduct will best be referred to your own reflections and experience. With me a predominant motive has been to endeavor to gain time to our country to settle and mature its yet recent institutions, and to progress without interruption to that degree of strength and consistency which is necessary to give it, humanly speaking, the command of its own fortunes” (George Washington, farewell address). Lafayette most likely took these words to heart and was inspired to watch France grow without interruption or