sentences:  Piastres affair
  
  The Piastres Affair also known as Piastres Scandal and Piastres Trade ("l'affaire des piastres", "le scandale des piastres", or "le trafic de pistres") was a financial-political scandal of the French Fourth Republic during the First Indochina War from 1950 to 1953.The basis for the affair was the pegging in 1945 of the French Indochinese piastre to the French franc at a rate of seventeen to one, increased from the previous rate of ten to one to avoid devaluation of the franc.