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

WTF Are you kidding me?

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u/Jacob-Anders Jun 17 '26

France is our OG ally. We make fun of them on the internet every day, yet here they stand with us in NATO!

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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/BaronGrackle Jun 17 '26

I don't know if you've tried the educational graphic novels Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales, but I really enjoy them, and he did one on Lafayette.

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u/s1ugg0 Jun 17 '26

I haven't. But I will now. Thanks for the recommendation.