Fedele-- your story sounds as plausible as mine.To Americans lafayette is a hero (and he made very sure the legend would go into the history books by surviving into old age & making a Grand Tour of America some time around 1826) to Frenchmen he may not be. But didn't everybody change sides to survive in those years? I have always admired Talleyrand, who told Louis XVIII that treason was, in his opinion "a small problem with dates". I once suggsted to a friend in the process of changing sweeties that he use the same definition of infidelity. His wife didn't approve.