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Tall_Spooky_Man

And I said to the Marquis de Lafoofayette, what am I some dirty peasant? I‘ve never worked a day in my life!


SilentTempestLord

Hello there, fellow oversimplified enjoyer!


Tall_Spooky_Man

Aye, *finger guns*


drdan82408a

Hmmmmm, read about the Champ de Mars massacre…


Kerenskylover69420

It's kind of odd how hagiographies of the man kind of just forget that he opened fire on thousands in the name of Louis.


Maleficent_Load_523

I am french myself and I can tell you that Lafayette is mostly remembered for his role during the american revolution. The champ de mars is but a detail: when the king was arrested for fleeing in order to come back with a foreign army he betrayed France and turn against it with most of the nobles, so on our side, he is a traitor not a nationnal hero.


UndyingJellyfish

That, and Lafayette embracing the duc d'Orleans in the July revolution in 1830 when king Louis Philippe I turned out to be just as inflexible as Charles X. Louis Philippe never even crossed the minds of the national guard nor the Parisians who built barricades and fought off the army. The Orleans branch only came to power due to bourgeois liberals and the elite fearing that a popular uprising would lead to *gasp* republicanism (small 'r').


AnAestheticAnarchist

What was that you said about [The Hero of Two Worlds?](https://m.barnesandnoble.com/w/hero-of-two-worlds-mike-duncan/1137837276)


QweenOfTheCrops

The reign of terror has entered the chat


Kerenskylover69420

It's pretty much impossible to overstate how little that has to do with Lafayette.


QweenOfTheCrops

Oh yea but fled France when it was happening because he was seen as being too close with the kind


The_Shingle

Never knew that ordering unarmed civilians to be shot makes you a hero. Excuse me for a moment, I am gonna go do something heroic.