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Old 02-12-2014, 09:50 PM
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I'd love to know how the US is supposed to have betrayed France.
The way we betrayed them is by defaulting on our debts to France at the time. It was something like $2-3 million -- billions in today's terms. It was a heavy blow to the French treasury, and was one of the contributing factors to the beginning of the French Revolution.
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