I wonder if the French experienced Schadenfreude at the British defeat in the Colonies.
The nobility did— they financed the defeat. However, the king of France bankrupted his treasury in doing so (sound familiar) and was in hock to... sovereign bankers (you can look up who they were).
Hamilton created our national bank for the new “ruling class” in northern states(much against the outcries of Jefferson et al), so that the US could begin to repay the war debt to France, which it did, sort of. In any case, in short order the cash shortage, bad harvest and regal arrogance brought the French Revolution and the Terror to reality.
A pablum version of this being played out in Greece, awaiting the seizure of US private deposits by the infamous “Bank of the US” aka the Federal Reserve.
Happy Independence Day-— in name only. The South tried.
Not only did they experience a large dose of "Schadenfreude", they provided an invaluable contribution to the defeat itself, therefore earning the right to well-deserved "satisfaction", too.