France was not our ally during the AR...
Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and others spent years off and on in France BEGGING them to help ...
allies don’t have to be begged and paid to help...
Lafayette came here in spite of the king of France...
De Gaulle was pretty questionable his whole time in power.
Actually France was our ally during our War of Independence. They sent us large quantities of Charleville muskets(which we later copied at Springfield Armory).
Their navy helped us in the last campaigns in Virginia as did their ground troops.