Marquis De Lafayette Influence On Society

Marquis De Lafayette, not only contributed to bringing change to France he also played a significant role in battling the British alongside the American colonist. He had firm beliefs in democracy and a limited government. Lafayette is credited as being one of the great reformers of France. His achievements were widely recognized and appreciated in both France and America alike. It is because of these efforts that a “toast” must be made to Lafayette an admirable enlightenment thinker and revolutionary.

Being born into an aristocratic family, Lafayette was able to receive a quality and liberal education. Lafayette was a philosophe that believed in rights entitled to every human being, a very distinct view from what was practiced in his native France. Due the common beliefs shared between him and the American revolutionaries along with the simple fact that he was Frenchman,
Essentially this document stated the rights that must be granted to every human being. Lafayette was also member of the “Société des Amis des Noirs” an abolitionist movement within France. (Finkelman) His battle against the unjust and unethical practice of slavery would foreshadow numerous abolitionist organizations in the United States. Not only did he fight for equality in ethnic, he also advocated for the French Protestant minority to receive more rights. (Finkelman) Upon returning to France he was welcomed as a hero by the French people and was made a Brigadier general. He introduced reforms and ideas that would lead France to abandoning practices that were viewed to only benefit the privileged and wealthy, keeping true to the ideas of the French