After the conclusion of the American War of Independence, instead of returning to the old model of default, which had been applied as recently as 1770, the French elite did everything it could to avoid that outcome. Fearing that the system was fragile, the government opened its coffers in 1787, bailing out private investors who had lost in an immense speculative scheme to corner shares in a reorganized East India Company.
美国独立战争大局已定后，法国精英并没有回到违约的老路上去——最近一次是1770年——而是竭尽全力避免这一结果。由于担心系统太过脆弱，政府在1787年打开了金库，援助在操纵重组的东印度公司股价的投机风潮中损失惨重的私人投资者。