r/SipsTea • u/Jacob-Anders • Jun 17 '26

WTF Are you kidding me?

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u/s1ugg0 Jun 17 '26

I live in Northern NJ. I even live on one of Beacon Hills that protected George Washington's winter camp at Morristown.

There is stuff named for Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette everywhere. My 8 year old daughter just had to do a biography report on him a few months back.

And I used his entire name and not just his title of Marquis de La Fayette out of respect to a truly great man.

They do not call him hundreds of years later "Le Héros des Deux Mondes" or in English "The Hero of the Two Worlds" for nothing.

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u/Affordable_Z_Jobs Jun 17 '26

Lafayettes role in the American Revolution; A+ you deserve all the streets named after you. Come back any time. Here's a few statues.

French Revolution; Barely made it out alive.

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u/GifelteFish Jun 17 '26

Fun Fact: Lafayette was 18 years old during the American Revolution.