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That’s funny, i was going to agree with you that he certainly was famous enough to have his street name… then i thought about it and i must say i’m now more persuaded than ever that he is not really famous in france not even by this low threshold, because in my n=1 sample, i’ve never seen a rue lafayette or avenue lafayette of my life!

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Rue La Fayette in Paris is quite an important street, next to Gare du Nord, and is a part of Haussmann's renovation

It's even in the Monopoly ;)

There's a boulevard in my city named after him. According to autocomplete, there's at least six another french cities having such a boulevard.

The big store "Galeries Lafayette" is also named after the street in which the first store was opened.

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