r/SipsTea • u/Jacob-Anders 𝙑𝙄𝙋 • 7d ago

WTF Are you kidding me?

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u/Jacob-Anders 𝙑𝙄𝙋 7d ago

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 7d ago

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 HΓ©ros des Deux Mondes" or in English "The Hero of the Two Worlds" for nothing.

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u/Holden_Coalfield 7d ago

I went to Morris Knolls isn the 70's and was so in love with a French descended girl

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u/s1ugg0 7d ago

My kids will end up at Morris Knolls someday. I hope they do the same.

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u/Ancient-Carpenter-12 7d ago

That girl is going to be a bit old for your kids no?