This is a website about early French-American relations.. It is about the French and Indian War, the great pre-revolutionary conflict, and the treaty of Paris, which ended it. It is about the struggle for American Independence, and the treaty of Alliance that secured war changing French aid. It is about the undeclared naval Quasi War with France, and the Louisiana purchase that more than doubled the size of the nation. Find out what it was like when we were just starting out, with help and hinderance from France.