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- In April 1793, "Citizen" Edmond Charles Genet (1763-1834), a French minister, arrived in the United States and passed out letters authorizing Americans to attack British commercial vessels and Spanish New Orleans. Washington regarded these actions as a clear violation of American neutrality and demanded that France recall its minister.
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The Citizen Genêt affair began in 1793 when he was dispatched to the United States to promote American support for France 's wars with Spain and Britain . Genêt arrived in Charleston, South Carolina, on the French frigate Embuscade on April 8.
In August 1793 Washington, who was firmly committed to a policy of neutrality in the European conflict, requested that Genêt be recalled. Realizing that he faced arrest if he returned to France, Genêt chose to remain in the United States; he married the daughter of George Clinton , governor of New York , became a U.S. citizen, and settled ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
On April 8, 1793 Genet arrived in Charleston, South Carolina, to promote French interests to the United States government, as France had become embroiled in war with Britain and Spain. His mission was to reinstate the alliance between France and the United States and to "liberate" Spanish America and British Canada either as independent states ...
Updated on June 03, 2019. The new United States federal government had largely managed to avoid serious diplomatic incidents until 1793. And then along came Citizen Genêt. Now more infamously known as “Citizen Genêt,” Edmond Charles Genêt served as France’s foreign minister to the United States from 1793 to 1794.
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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Edmond-Charles Genet arrived in Charleston, South Carolina on 8 April 1793, the first minister (ambassador) to the United States from the Republic of France. Rather than proceed immediately to Philadelphia, then the capital of the United States, and present himself to Washington right away, Genet lingered in Charleston and encouraged American ...
Jan 29, 2024 · Edmond Charles Genêt was the first Ambassador to the United States from the Republic of France. Genêt arrived in Charleston, South Carolina on April 8, 1793, and called himself “Citizen Genêt” as a way to emphasize his pro-revolutionary stance and support for the French Revolution.
