Statistics for occurrence #1 of “France” in entry france-early-relations-with of Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History:

...on of American vessels unjustly. Merlin, the French minister of justice, made a reply in which he openly avowed the intention to humble the Americans and compel Congress to conform to the wishes of France by depredations upon American commerce. Let your government, wrote this minister of justice (who was also a speculator in privateers), return to a sense of what is due to itself and its true frien...
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Entity Corpus Doc Corpus Doc  
France (France) 17,744 2,462 0 0 0 user votes
France (Idaho, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes

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