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Important facts from the first fifty pages of Sarah Vowell’s Lafayette book:

- Lafayette was apparently a redhead
- He devoted his childhood to finding and killing the Beast of Gévaudan
- Alas, he failed
- One time he got laughed off the dance floor by Marie Antoinette

This is even better when you realize both he and Marie Antoinette were teenagers at the time. GINGER ORPHAN EMBARRASSED AT PROM, LITERALLY FLEES TO ANOTHER CONTINENT

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