#hey layfay

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I just miss historical Lafayette posts.

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We were ignorant about how our traveling companions, who were numerous, were arranged to pass the night, when George Lafayette, while going to take some air on the deck, recognized that the room in which we had dined was suddenly transformed into a vast dormitory, the floor of which was covered with beds that the crowd was sharing unceremoniously. Among those who were getting ready to stretch out on a modest mattress, he noticed with astonishment Secretary of State Adams. He ran to him and begged him earnestly to change beds with him; the former refused declaring that he was very well and that he would be dreadfully sorry to separate the son from the father. I happened upon this debate, and I joined my entreaties to those of George Lafayette. I remarked to Mr. Adams that he did not have the same objections to make against my proposal, and I added that I hoped, indeed, that he would not condemn me to the sorrow of sleeping in a good bed, whereas I knew that a man of his character was stretched out on a hard one. He answered me with some obliging words but which constituted, however, a formal refusal. Finally, pressed by our combined entreaties, and by the name of General Lafayette which we invoked, he declared to us that even if he would be disposed to accept our offer, he would still be obliged to refuse it because above all he was obliged to respect the decisions of the committee of arrangements, and the committee had decided that no one would be admitted into the General’s room, except his two companions of the trip…. George Lafayette ran immediately to a member of the committee and requested of him, in the name of his father, that Mr. Adams be admitted into the room in place of one of us. This latter stipulation did not appear admissible to the committee which, after a short deliberation, decided that a fourth bed would be set up in General Lafayette’s room and that Mr. Adams would occupy it, not because he was Secretary of State, but because General Lafayette wanted to have him near to him

Levasseaur in the Journals of Lafayette's Farewell Tour.

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Sometimes I just think about Lafayette and Animal Magnetism and start crying laughing. The dude was a mess. I love him so much.

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The truest meme

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—I know as Much as Any Conjurer Ever did, Which Remind’s me of our old friend’s at Fiskills Enterview with the devil that Made us laugh So Much at His House...

Lafayette to Washington, May 14, 1784 during a rant on Mesmerism

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Anyway I really need to find that letter where Gilbert or Wash wrote to each other about laughing at that story about the devil because that amused me more than it should.

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Lmao @ everyone out here making fan art of Lafayette with hair when everyone knows the dude was bald before he was like 26.