George Washington's liberty key : Mount Vernon's Bastille key -- the mystery and magic of its body, mind, and soul

George Washington's liberty key : Mount Vernon's Bastille key -- the mystery and magic of its body, mind, and soul

Mount Vernon's Bastille key

Bloomingdale, IL IBEX Systems 2019

xiv, 240 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

923.173 W318bahr 2019 MB

Revised March 2019; first published November 2016.|Includes bibliographical references (p. 228-233) and index.|" ... The book links Mount Vernon's Bastille Key (and its tortuous travels through bloody, revolutionary France) to George Washington's character and his advice on the three key, crucial, and indispensable conditions for freedom to survive and thrive: "Character, Culture, Constitution." Specifically, this new book shines a bright light on the most interesting key ever made – America's premier symbol of liberty's victory over tyranny – which now hangs in the central passageway of George Washington’s Mount Vernon mansion, helping to greet over a million visitors a year. The main key to the Bastille prison in Paris, it was given in 1790 to Washington, the patriarch of liberty, by his missionary, the Marquis de Lafayette, who took the "sacred fire of liberty" he discovered in America and tried to fan its flames in France ..."--Back cover.|L2019G16

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