One of the more hilarious things you learn while doing research to write a random fanfic about a dress up princess mobile game is that Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette, was freakin NINETEEN YEARS OLD when we made him a Major General.
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Like these days we will barely let you be a private in charge of your own socks at that age but the Continental Congress was all "oh hey kid yeah sure absolutely here's some big shiny shoulder boards"
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Some people thought it was an honorary rank but George Washington was all "oh sure yeah absolutely you can command troops"
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The other hilarious thing you learn is that his name was Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier. His title of course being Marquis de La Fayette, and then Americans were like "fuck that noise" and called him Lafayette
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It must have been terribly gauche for the French aristocracy to give a baby fewer than four first names. Marie Antoinette was doomed to disappoint the people of France, having the bare minimum of first names: Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna
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On the other hand Louis XVI was merely Louis-Auguste which made it inevitable the French people would rise up and overthrow him.
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Shep I came across a Bonaparte in a medieval Welsh philological journal today from the late 19th c, and his published title was HIH Louis Lucien Bonaparte. I was like...are you joking.
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