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Similarly there are a lot of US towns named Lafayette, Fayette, or Fayetteville, after the marquis de Lafayette, who fought for the US in the American Revolutio
by madcaptenor 11y ago
Similarly there are a lot of US towns named Lafayette, Fayette, or Fayetteville, after the marquis de Lafayette, who fought for the US in the American Revolution.
- WorldMaker 11y agoAlso interesting here is a common American use of the place name La Grange/Lagrange being a reference to Lafeyette's home castle (as opposed to the mathematician from whom we get such concepts as Lagrange Points).