Why did France no longer need the Louisiana Territory?

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Peter
Mar 23, 2016

It wasn't a matter of need but a matter of necessity.

Explanation:

France had been fighting wars with England for hundreds of years and at the time it was coming away from another such fight. The French government was strapped for cash and America's offer of cash for land was too good to pass up.

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