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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Genest, or Genet, Edmond Charles 1765-1834 (search)
efiance with impunity? His cabinet answered No! The most exacting country could not counsel longer forbearance, and the French government was requested, July, 1793, to recall its minister; and it was done. There was a reaction in the public mind towards a more patriotic attitude. The insolence of Genest had shocked the national pride. On April 22, 1793, the President issued a proclamation of neutrality, which the radical Democrats denounced as an edict of royalty. Genest—succeeded by M. Fouchet, a man equally indiscreet— did not leave the country, as he did not think it prudent to return. Marrying the daughter of Gov. George Clinton, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States. He was twice married, his second wife being a daughter of Mr. Osgood, the first Postmaster-General under the new Constitution. Fond of agriculture, he took great interest in its pursuit; and his last illness was occasioned by attendance at a meeting of an agricultural society of which he was th
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Randolph, Edmund (Jennings) 1753-1813 (search)
fferson as Secretary of State. Soon afterwards M. Fouchet, the French minister, in a private despatch to hity if they should take the smallest step. He asked Fouchet if he could lend them funds immediately to shelter persecution. In his despatch in October following, Fouchet returned to the subject. He gave a sketch of the ring energy to the government. Such, according to Fouchet, was the origin of the expedition into the western in ratifying Jay's treaty to Randolph, communicated Fouchet's despatch to Wolcott, as going to show what intrigington presented to him the intercepted despatch of Fouchet in the presence of the other members, with a requesommenting upon it. He could not tell, he said, what Fouchet referred to when he spoke of Randolph as asking forxplanations, for which purpose he proposed to visit Fouchet, who was at Newport, R. I., and about to sail for France. Fouchet gave to Randolph an explanatory letter that was very unsatisfactory. Randolph published a vind
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), X Y Z letters, (search)
X Y Z letters, 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