French Made Offer

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Regarding the Louisiana Purchase, Kent Milner asks, "I have always wondered why we had to purchase a title from France in the first place. Didn't it really belong to someone else?" (Readers' Forum, Aug. 30).

Thomas Jefferson bought that chunk of land because the French, who needed money, offered it to him.

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