decourfeyrac:

• raised as p much a farmboy by his gparents even though he was p much the richest boy in france because his mom was too sad about his dad’s death to raise him and moved to paris by herself
• orphaned at 12  my poor bb 😦
• was arranged to marry adrienne but was SERIOUSLY in love with her anyways so it all worked out
• danced with marie antionette at a ball and bc he didn’t grow up in court he was bad at dancing so she laughed at him causing the whole court to join her it’s so sad i love him i feel so bad
• learned about the prospective american revolution through military school and his heart was just so overwhelmed with love for the us people that he just HAD to sign up to fight
• bought his own ship to illegally sailed to america against his king’s orders for the simple reason that he believed in us so much
• dressed as a woman while doing so so he wouldn’t get caught
• proved to the foreign policy people that he wan’t just another frenchman trying to get fame and glory by telling them he’d fight for free! (he was super rich anyways after all who cares he’s just here to help america)
• george washington played “dad” to him the same way he did with hamilton except lafayette embraced it and they napped under a tree together on top of the same coat once
• lafayette loved george washington so much he named his only son George Washington de Lafayette its so beautiful
• was NOT OKAY during the french revolution he had to run to Austria to escape, he got caught, and was imprisoned for NINE YEARS until Buonaparte and Washington had him freed
• Washington and hamilton raised his son while he was in jail how sweet
• was for ReAL against slaver and was a member of the french abolitionist group Societe des amis des Nois
• wanted to create a home with george washington tha took in freed slaves and educated them to allow them to be able to work and thrive as a newly free citizen and when washington decided that wouldn’t be a good career move lafayette did it HIMSELF on some island idk which im not sober rn
• Tallahassee (the place i live) literally exists bc he told Napoleon’s nephew aka our first mayor to create it
• is LITERALLY buried under AMERICAN soil even though he’s buried in France he  told his kids “HEY i love america burry me under this soil” so they had soil from bunker hill shipped to france and he’s buried under it
• he believed in us so much we need to be better for HIM