look at Drouét. He hadn’t been anybody either, an illiterate French peasant who normally would never have made it into the history books. Except that Louis the Sixteenth, escaping from France with Marie Antoinette, leaned out the window of his carriage to ask Drouét directions, and then, in one of those minor actions that change the course of history, tipped him a banknote. With his picture on it.
i don't remember ever hearing this story
