id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-1378 James Fenimore Cooper - Wikipedia .html text/html 10007 1338 73 He became friends with painter (and later inventor) Samuel Morse and with French general and American Revolutionary War hero Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette.[33][34] Cooper admired the patrician liberalism of Lafayette, who sought to recruit him to his causes, and eulogized him as a man who "dedicated youth, person, and fortune, to the principles of liberty."[35] Cooper was one of the most popular 19th-century American authors, and his work was admired greatly throughout the world.[58] While on his death bed, the Austrian composer Franz Schubert wanted most to read more of Cooper's novels.[59] Honoré de Balzac, the French novelist and playwright, admired him greatly.[60] Henry David Thoreau, while attending Harvard, incorporated some of Cooper's style in his own work.[61] D. James Fenimore Cooper and the Development of American Sea Fiction. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1378.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1378.txt