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You Searched For: Most Recent Addition To The Columbia University Digital Archives Project (1529 words) by Chanter
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Miraculous Ladybug, 18th Century CE RPF
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: James Armistead Lafayette & Liiri (Miraculous Ladybug), James Armistead Lafayette & Gilbert du Motier Marquis de Lafayette, Gilbert du Motier Marquis de Lafayette & Liiri (Miraculous Ladybug)
Characters: James Armistead Lafayette, Gilbert du Motier Marquis de Lafayette, Liiri (Miraculous Ladybug), Minor Characters, Original Character(s) - Character
Additional Tags: Epistolary, Historical, Canon Compliant, Worldbuilding, references to historical enslavement, Underground Railroad activity, POV Character of Color, Universities, Libraries, library archives, in-universe speculation on historical events, minor character(s) of color, eagle!Gilbert du Motier Marquis de Lafayette, eagle!James Armistead Lafayette, Original Character(s) of Color - Freeform, Original Nonbinary Character - Freeform, research and researchers, Snarky Academics, Women Being Awesome, people of color being awesome, Miraculous New York Spoilers
Summary:

Archive's note: This is a digitized copy of a high-quality reproduction previously used for graduate-level and doctoral research done in realtime. It does include annotations added after the fact, but rest assured, no one has been marking up the original historical document with asterisks! -Dr. Nelda Hinajosa-Mogilla, Senior Archivist

The fact that Lafayette was the last to wield the eagle Miraculous before a two-century gap does not automatically mean he was the only eagle-wielder before that gap.