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It happened some years before Customs developed such concerns, but the Marquis de LaFayette made a tour of the U.S. late in his life and returned to France with a substantial quantity of soil from Virginia, in which he was eventually buried.
There are some rather interesting and inspiring stories surrounding these facts.