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The French wanted influence in Mexico, and it would have suited them if there were a new nation, pro-French, in-between Mexico and the USA.

For this reason, they were considering sending aid to the South until Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation made it impossible to do this without looking pro-slavery themselves.

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