Comment by bhouston

> I couldn’t find any clear news source or academic reference to that event.

It happened though. Here are the sources for it:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_shock#Criticism_and_decl...

- https://www.thegoldobserver.com/p/how-france-secretly-repatr...

- https://www.elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/1994/128/arti...