The Boivin Center for French Languages and Culture will host a presentation and lecture called “Lafayette in America” on March 6 at 4 p.m. at the Grand Reading Room in the university library.

Host Alan Hoffman, an attorney and translator who published an English version of “Lafayette in America in 1824 and 1825,” a first-hand account of Lafayette’s Farewell Tour of America, originally written by his private secretary. Since publishing the translation in 2006, Hoffman has gone on to give more than 135 lectures on the tour.

Hoffman is an officer of two Lafayette societies: he currently serves as President of the American Friends of Lafayette and President of the Massachusetts Lafayette Society. He has been designated a scholar in the New Hampshire Humanities Council’s “Humanities to Go” program.

The event will feature an honor guard led by Le Régiment Bourbonnais, a period reenactment group.

The event is free and open to the public. Parking is available in Lot 13. For further information, please contact Maria Sanguinetti at msanguinetti@umassd.edu or calling 508-991-5096