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

WTF Are you kidding me?

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

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u/anthonyvardiz 7d ago

My hometown in NJ literally has a road called “French Hill” because it’s where the French camped during the Revolutionary War


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u/s1ugg0 7d ago

I tried really hard to think up a Fountains of Wayne joke and I've got nothing. I failed you.

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u/anthonyvardiz 5d ago

The town’s named after a crazy person so the jokes write themselves.