The Frenchman's Remark to the Marquis De Lafayette

The marquis de lafayette arrived in philadelphia just days before congress created a new committee to handle applications from foreign officers. James lovell believed his job was to use his very good french to tell arrogant european impostors to get lost, just as he had done with the latest batch who came up from charleston. Lafayette confirmed everything said about him as previous french officers demanded exorbitant pay. It took a full day for congress to finally read the letters from dean accompanying the commissions, as well as letters fromcharleston notables,. Lovell returned to lafayette's lodgings accompanied by another french speaking american named william deer. Clearly there