Why were the French willing to help the Americans against the British?

france hesitated to help the americans because they had two goals one of them was to sacure loyalist lands the second one was to recapture the other coloniesso they wanted to help the americans defeat the britian but then they started to wonder imm not giveing them money nor ship or boats if there already going to lose so even if France and the americans both were eniemees with britain as long back as they could remember the americans still would lose so ya