Lafayette was a boss

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Quick facts:

• Commissioned as an officer at age 13
• Travel at America to join the revolution because he believed in the ideals of the war
• Made a Major General at 19
• Traveled back and forth from France during the War to help gain French support in the effort
• Commanded troops in decisive battles to help secure American independence
• Made a French Knight
• Strict abolitionist, joined the Society of Friends of the Blacks in 1780s
• Said fukk it, went back to France and played a major role in their revolution
• Was a Lieutenant General in the French Army
• Helped write The Declarations of the Rights of the Man and the Citizen
• Did a 5 year bid for pissing off some of the radicals of the French Revolution
• Freed by Napoleon but refused to join him
• Went on tour of the United States, clowned US states for saying "Liberty for All" but keeping people enslaved
• Declined offer to become the French dictator in 1830

 

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His grave in Paris:

 

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Text of the 2002 Joint Resolution of the Congress conferring honorary citizenship of the U.S. to the Marquis de Lafayette

Public Law 107–209
107th Congress
Joint Resolution
Conferring honorary citizenship of the United States posthumously on Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roche Gilbert du Motier, the Marquis de Lafayette.
Whereas the United States has conferred honorary citizenship on four other occasions in more than 200 years of its independence, and honorary citizenship is and should remain an extraordinary honor not lightly conferred nor frequently granted;
Whereas Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roche Gilbert du Motier, the Marquis de Lafayette or General Lafayette, voluntarily put forth his own money and risked his life for the freedom of Americans;
Whereas the Marquis de Lafayette, by an Act of Congress, was voted to the rank of Major General;
Whereas, during the Revolutionary War, General Lafayette was wounded at the Battle of Brandywine, demonstrating bravery that forever endeared him to the American soldiers;
Whereas the Marquis de Lafayette secured the help of France to aid the United States’ colonists against Great Britain;
Whereas the Marquis de Lafayette was conferred the honor of honorary citizenship by the Commonwealth of Virginia and the State of Maryland;
Whereas the Marquis de Lafayette was the first foreign dignitary to address Congress, an honor which was accorded to him upon his return to the United States in 1824;
Whereas, upon his death, both the House of Representatives and the Senate draped their chambers in black as a demonstration of respect and gratitude for his contribution to the independence of the United States;
Whereas an American flag has flown over his grave in France since his death and has not been removed, even while France was occupied by Nazi Germany during World War II; and
Whereas the Marquis de Lafayette gave aid to the United States
in her time of need and is forever a symbol of freedom:
Now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roche Gilbert du Motier, the Marquis de Lafayette, is proclaimed posthumously to be an honorary citizen of the United States of America.
Approved August 6, 2002.

 

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