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Dorothea Graham Jensen
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A Buss from Lafayette
Teens
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Zooming about Lafayette
A week ago I had the great fun of participating in a panel discussion on Zoom with three other authors, done under the auspices of the American Friends of Lafayette. All of us have put Lafayette into historical fiction. We talked about why and how we did thisedalked about the challenge of demonstrating that Lafayette was a charming man genuinely interested in and concerned for others. I had to make up a situation in which my main character, Clara, was in a situation (sobbing her heart out and sitting in a brook) that could show this. I think it worked pretty well. Eventually a recording of this Zoom call will be posted on the Americn Friends of Lafayette website. I will let you know when that happens.
Book Excerpt
A Buss from Lafayette
It was the Nation’s Guest himself!
After all I had learned about him and what he had done for my country, I was nearly overwhelmed with awe and excitement. Mixed in with these was a fair amount of embarrassment at meeting such a distinguished gentleman, dressed as I was in boy’s breeches and a bedraggled dress pulled up to my waist, both completely soaked. Still, I had enough presence of mind to clamber to my feet to the side of the brook and curtsy, holding my dripping skirts out as well as I could.
He returned my curtsy with an elegant, courtly bow. “But what are you doing here alone, sitting in a stream of water weeping?” he asked. He leaned forward to look closely at my face, a look of earnest concern on his own. “Is it an affair of the heart?”
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