In this second episode of our two-part series on the Marquis de Lafayette, The History in Motion Podcast follows the “Hero of Two Worlds” as he returns to a France on the brink of revolution.

Celebrated as an American hero, Lafayette would soon find himself commanding the National Guard in Paris, caught between loyalty to the King and the rising tide of the people.

From drafting the Declaration of the Rights of Man, to the bloody Champ de Mars Massacre, to years of harsh imprisonment abroad, Lafayette’s ideals were tested in the crucible of the French Revolution.

Join us as we explore his fall from grace, his survival through the Terror, his uneasy relationship with Napoleon, and his final act as an elder statesman — the closing chapter of a life devoted to liberty on both sides of the Atlantic.