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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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