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Dorothea Graham Jensen
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A Buss from Lafayette
Teens
Author Insight
Glimpsing Lafayette's Sense of Humor
This true incident is another instance of Lafayette's self-deprecating sense of humor. I HAD to include it in my story. Despite having been welcomed like a rock star for nearly a year all over America, this word-famous man could still laugh at himself in a most charming manner! No wonder people loved him.
Book Excerpt
A Buss from Lafayette
It turned out that after Mr. Parker had introduced the “false” Lafayette to the real one, he had recounted how he had made speeches all the way from Boston explaining that his passenger was not Lafayette. The Nation’s Guest had roared with laughter, then said that perhaps Mr. Parker could alternate with him in speech-making the remainder of the route to Concord. “This was said in such a comical way that we all guffawed, for we all knew that no one could be a substitute for the famous man himself.”
This Lafayette fellow sounds as if he has an excellent sense of humor, I thought, and is not puffed up with his own importance. He actually sounds like someone I would like.
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