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Gold was pegged at $35 when you say it was $100, so convertibility by offshore banks meant nothing to the people.
Nixon was outed by the globalist CIA deep state, not the citizenry. He was fighting the same people you blame.
And perhaps that price fixing clearly sums up the manipulation that existed over the price or value of real money.
Perhaps for you Nixon was a great figure, and I don't dispute your assessment of him.
From my perspective, he simply established one of the biggest frauds we have seen in the last 100 years: FIAT paper money.
I recognize he slowed the bleeding of a fraud he inherited, and has been smeared unduly.
That's what's important to learn from, Jackson is another president that fought the international banks and was pilloried. Trump derangement is an extension of that, he's breaking the rules-based order for a math-based order as Nixon and Jackson did.
Again, there's no one government, just a battlefield.
From my perspective, France simply realized it was being scammed. They simply wanted real money, not paper issued and controlled by the Federal Reserve and the US government. (By third parties)
And as for whether they did it to help citizens, inflation is the answer. Look at what you could buy with $100 in 1970. Then look at what you can buy today with $100 in 2025.
Then check how many dollars you could get for an ounce of gold in 1970, and then see how many pieces of paper you need today in 2025 to get the same ounce.