Barbara W. Tuchman Quotes
The War, Like All Wars, Was Proving More Expensive For The Bourbons Than Planned. Since The Alliance, France Had Advanced To The Americans Over 100 Million Livres, About $25 Million, In Loans, Supplies And Gifts, And Before It Was Over The Cost Of The American War For France Would Amount, By Some Estimates, To 1.5 Billion Livres, A Historic Sum That Was Virtually To Bankrupt The French National Budget And Require The Summoning Of The Estates General In 1789 That Led To The Arrest Of The King And The Sequence Of Eruptions That Became The French Revolution.
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