Last updated: August 20, 2018
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Louisiana Purchase
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Photo: National Archives
These photos, from the National Archives, show the primary financial agreement which stated the U.S. would pay $60 million francs ($11,250,000) to France. It was signed by Napoleon Bonaparte and the French foreign minister, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord.
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