The Women of Chateau Lafayette is Stephanie Dray’s masterpiece.  She previously co-authored books about Jefferson’s daughter and Hamilton’s wife and this time she takes on Lafayette’s wife without her usual co-writer Laura Kamoie. The book carefully weaves the story of three women whose lives center around Lafayette’s castle in Chavaniac, France.  The first protagonist is Madame Lafayette herself, starting in 1774 with her wedding to the country bumpkin Lafayette, and progressing through both the American and French revolutions.  The second is Beatrice Chanler in 1914, […]