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Understandable, we should pay up (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 30 points 4 days ago (6 children)

Sorry, that deal was made with the French royal family, not the republic. It's null and void.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

It doesn't matter. The debt was repaid in 1795 by James Swan, a banker who assumed the debt from the U.S.

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