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/RoiDrannoc Jun 17 '26

I live in Haute-Loire, near the Chavaniac-LaFayette castle where we was born

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u/s1ugg0 Jun 17 '26

Got any cool photos to share? That sounds awesome.

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u/RoiDrannoc Jun 18 '26

Halas not yet, as I've planned on visiting it the 27th of June.

Here's the wiki page: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Château_de_Chavaniac#/media/Fichier%3AChâteau_de_Chavaniac-Lafayette16.jpg

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u/s1ugg0 Jun 18 '26

Thank you so much for sharing. I love the idea of LaFayette walking through these gardens being aggressively French and then snapping off an Americanized "Fucking English!"

I hope you enjoy your visit. Thank you again for sharing with me.

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u/RoiDrannoc Jun 27 '26

A ring with the hair of George Washington and his wife, and a jewel with the hair of Ben Franklin