I Who Should Command All: Audubon-Louis XVII?

By Alice J. Tyler

Book Overview

Was John James Audubon, America 1/2s most celebrated naturalist, really Louis Charles, Duc de Normandie, the Lost Dauphin of eighteenth-century France? The possibility that royalty flowed in the veins of Audubon has intrigued many a historian. Previous biographies have tried to unravel the threads of the Audubon family 1/2s secret, but none have been as successful as I Who Should Command All .
Extracts from letters of John James Audubon and statements of various family members shed light on the subject of Audubon 1/2s birth in the author 1/2s attempt to solve this intriguing historical question. Tyler discusses how Admiral Jean
Audubon, an intimate of the Marquis de Lafayette, George Washington, and a ship commander at the Battle of Yorktown, came to adopt the mysterious youth the world would later know as John James Audubon. She also addresses the deeper meaning of Audubon 1/2s reference to himself in a letter to his faithful wife Lucy as, I who should command all.
The original printing of I Who Should Command All was published in honor of the opening of Audubon Memorial Park and Museum at Henderson, Kentucky, in 1937.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0882894803
• ISBN13: 9780882894805
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 4.9" x 7.2"