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The Marquis de Lafayette, known as the hero of two revolutions, arrived in the United States at age 19 to serve alongside George Washington and then helped inspire the French Revolution.
As the French Revolution took a tyrannical, anti-liberty turn, he fell out of favor with the radicals in power (such as the butcher Maximilien Robespierre). He was stripped of his French citizenship.