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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Genest , or Genet , Edmond Charles 1765 -1834 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Randolph , Edmund (Jennings) 1753 -1813 (search)
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Popular designation of a correspondence, made public in 1798, which nearly resulted in the United States declaring war against France.
Louis XVI.
had been overthrown in France, and a republic established in charge of the Directory and Council.
The French envoys to America, Genet, Adet, and Fouchet, annoyed Presidents Washington and Adams exceedingly by their arrogance.
Then the French Directory authorized French war-vessels to seize American merchantmen and detain them for examination.
Fully 1,000 vessels, carrying the United States flag, had been thus stopped in their course when Adams appointed Pinckney, Marshall, and Gerry as a commission to visit France and negotiate a treaty that would save American vessels from further annoyance.
The commission was met in France by three unofficial agents, who told the Americans that the Directory would not listen to them unless suitable bribes, amounting to $240,000, were given; and that, if the commission were receive