PLEASE HELP ME IF U CAN!! French agents known as X,Y, and Z asked American diplomats for a bribe and a loan to France in order to even meet for negotiations.
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This is true The diplomats, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, John Marshall, and Elbridge Gerry, we’re approached through channels by agents of the French foreign minister, Talleyrand, who demanded bribes and a loan before formal negotiations could begin