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and no particular talent for organization,
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but he fit the image of what many people in France
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who were fed up with the Republic believed that
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that France needed.
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He was sent to the U.S. at Yorktown,
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in order to represent France at the centennial
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of essentially the British surrender
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in the American Revolution,
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and he caused a stir by refusing to leave the ship
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on which he'd arrived in America
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until they took down the German flags
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that were also being flown at the same time.