资助民主革命的君王统治
After two years of war, Louis' investment in the American revolution
seemed to pay off, when the rebels got their first great victory
at the Battle Of Saratoga. He decided that the moment had come
to support America publicly and go to war with Britain.
He threw a huge party at Versailles to welcome one of the men
who'd drafted America's Declaration Of Independence Benjamin Franklin.
Louis and the nobles of Versailles didn't care that Franklin was a democrat
who did not believe in the rule of kings and princes. What appealed to them was the chance
to do down a country they hated so much that they wore its image on their backsides.
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