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Edmond-Charles Genêt (January 8, 1763 – July 14, 1834), also known as Citizen Genêt, was the French envoy to the United States appointed by the Girondins during the French Revolution. His actions on arriving in the United States led to a major political and international incident, which was termed the Citizen Genêt affair.
Edmond-Charles Genêt (born Jan. 8, 1763, Versailles, France—died July 14, 1834, Schodack, N.Y., U.S.) was a French emissary to the United States during the French Revolution who severely strained Franco-American relations by conspiring to involve the United States in France’s war against Great Britain. In 1781 Edmond succeeded his father, ...
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Edmond Charles Genet was a French diplomat sent to the United States during George Washington's first term as president in 1792. He planned to have Americans attack the British and Spanish in North America, countries then at war with France.
1793–1794. Edmond Charles Genêt served as French minister to the United States from 1793 to 1794. His activities in that capacity embroiled the United States and France in a diplomatic crisis, as the United States Government attempted to remain neutral in the conflict between Great Britain and Revolutionary France.
George Washington. Citizen Genêt Affair, (1793), incident precipitated by the military adventurism of Citizen Edmond-Charles Genêt, a minister to the United States dispatched by the revolutionary Girondist regime of the new French Republic, which at the time was at war with Great Britain and Spain. His activities violated an American ...
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Edmond Charles Genet (1763-1834), known as Citizen Genet, French emissary to the United States, influenced American foreign relations as well as the formation of America's early two-party system. Edmond Genet was the scion of prerevolutionary French gentry.
The journey of Edmond-Charles Genêt is one example of emigration fueled by political oppression. In 1792, the French revolutionary government appointed Genêt as ambassador to the United States. He arrived in Charleston, South Carolina and traveled north to Philadelphia, the nation's capital at that time.
