Each country withdrew its ambassador and war quickly followed.
France had not tried to make a hard bargain with the Americans.
She demanded nothing for herself and agreed not even to ask for the restoration of Canada.

She required only that America should never restore the King's sovereignty in order to secure peace.

Certain sections of opinion in America were suspicious of France.

Was she not the old enemy who had so long harassed the frontiers of New England and New York?
If George III was a despot what of Louis XVI, who had not even an elected Parliament to restrain him?
Washington himself was distrustful of France and months after the alliance had been concluded he uttered the warning that hatred of England must not lead to over-confidence in France.

"No nation," he said, "is to be trusted farther than it is bound by its interests." France, he thought, must desire to recover Canada, so recently lost.