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The money France lent the United States between 1778 and 1782, and the dispute and settlement over repaying it, to 1795.

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1778–1795

American debt to France. The money France lent the United States between 1778 and 1782, and the dispute and settlement over repaying it, to 1795.

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The American debt to France involved French royal government, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson and the United States government.

The American debt to France followed from Contract between the King and the Thirteen United States (1782) and the French intervention in the American war.

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