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Originally Posted by pmulcahy11b
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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But didn't America bail them out of two world wars and give them over $2 billion as part of the Marshall Plan after WW2.