article_snippet.sent: It set sail in France on Saturday for Virginia to retrace a journey through American history.
article_snippet.sent: More than 200 years later, in 1997, a group of people came up with the idea of reconstructing the frigate using the same building methods applied in the original.
article_snippet.sent: a group of people claim the replica is the "most authentically built Tall Ship in the last 150 years.
article_snippet.sent: After a year of testing, it set sail Saturday to retrace Lafayette's journey, 235 years after the original, and France gave it a sendoff with the trappings of an act of state.
highlights_snippet.sent: The original fought with American colonists against the British in the Revolutionary War .