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A French Idea

rench law professor Édouard de Laboulaye believed that the friendship between the United States and France was special. That friendship dated back to the Revolutionary War (1775–1783). Back then, the French had supported the Americans in their fight for independence from Great Britain. French officers fought alongside the American Continental Army, and the French sent aid in the form of supplies and ships. Laboulaye also was an abolitionist and an admirer of U.S. president Abraham Lincoln. The American Civil War (1861–1865), through which

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