Former French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing died yesterday. It was he who first described the ability to print dollars, convertible to gold, as "America's exorbitant privilege".

The French hated this as it "resulted in an "asymmetric financial system" which supported "American living standards and subsidizing American multinationals".

This IMF paper on France's monetary foreign policy is worth a read... https://www.elibrary.imf.org/view/IMF001/02637-9781451935363/02637-9781451935363/02637-9781451935363_A001.xml?redirect=true

Giscard d'Estaing also designed a French bond (named after him, Giscard Bonds), who's price was linked that that of gold. Caused excitement in the gold market in 1987 when they matured.
https://www.joc.com/giscard-bond-payoff-may-affect-dollar_19871228.html

Sherman McCoy, the bond trader in Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe trades Giscard Bonds at Pierce & Pierce for a living, and it's an important bit of of the plot.

Here's Sherman trying to explain bond trading to his kids...