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The French Revolution had our founding fathers *very* conflicted. On the one hand, the regime being overthrown had helped them win independence from England, so there was a notion that maybe the overthrow of a friendly regime was not a good thing. On the other hand, revolution! The Federalists weren’t fond of the whole French Revolution thing, while the Democratic-Republicans were fervent admirers of the revolution. Until it started beheading mass numbers of people. That sort of soured Americans on the thing.
The reaction to the French Revolution was one of the major ideological schisms in the American proto-political parties. The French aristocracy did help out, but they were a nasty piece of work. Alas the follow-on government learned how to govern from the worse of the lot.