[witnesstothefall]

called the land of Lafayette "the enemy".

For the record, France has some nice farmland and the sections of Med coastline that weren't despoiled by oil are known to be very nice.

But Lafayette fled France literally for his life, as any American francophile or francophobe, as the case may be, should know. The French, hmmpf!

[aristeides]

It is true that Lafayette fled the French revolutionaries. But, later in life, at the Restoration, he returned to a place of high honor in France.