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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 Genêt was virtually raised to be a government diplomat. Born in Versailles in 1763, he was the ninth son of a lifelong French civil servant, Edmond Jacques Genêt, a head clerk in the ministry of foreign affairs. The elder Genêt analyzed British naval strength during the Seven Years' War and monitored the progress of the American Revo...
During the 1790s, American foreign policy was dominated by the multi-national fallout being generated by the French Revolution. After the violent overthrow of the French monarchy in 1792, the French revolutionary government faced an often-violent colonial power struggle with the monarchies of Great Britain and Spain. In 1793, President George Washi...
As soon as he stepped off the ship in Charleston, South Carolina on April 8, 1793, Genêt introduced himself as “Citizen Genêt” in an effort to emphasize his pro-revolutionary stance. Genêt hoped his affection for French revolutionaries would help him win the hearts and minds of Americans who had recently fought their own revolution, with the help o...
Not to be deterred by the U.S. government’s warnings, Genêt began outfitting another French pirate ship in Charleston Harbor named the Little Democrat. Defying further warnings from U.S. officials to not allow the ship to leave port, Genêt continued to prepare the Little Democrat to sail. Further fanning the flames, Genêt threatened to bypass the U...
In response to the Citizen Genêt affair, the United States immediately established a formal policy regarding international neutrality. On August 3, 1793, President Washington’s Cabinet unanimously signed a set of regulations regarding neutrality. Less than a year later, on June 4, 1794, Congress formalized those regulations with its passage of the ...
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Mar 5, 2024 · 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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Genet was recalled in January 1794 but was granted political asylum by Washington when Genet’s Jacobin replacement called for his arrest and deportation to France. Genet married New York Governor George Clinton's daughter Cornelia on November 6, 1794, and retired to her farm on the Hudson River. After her death in 1810, he married Martha ...
Genet Affair. The “Genet Affair,” also known as the French Neutrality Crisis, was a diplomatic incident that occurred during George Washington ’s second term as President of the United States. The debate centered around whether the United States should intervene in the French Republic’s war with Great Britain and what constituted ...
Jan 29, 2024 · The Citizen Genêt Affair (1793–1794) 1793–1794. The Citizen Genêt Affair was a diplomatic incident that took place in 1793–94. It helped shape American foreign policy and led to the passage of the Neutrality Act of 1794. George Washington was President during the Citizen Genêt Affair. This portrait of Washinton was painted by Gilbert ...
For his political activities in America see Eugene P. Link, Democratic-Republican Societies, 1790-1800 (1942). There is a useful summary of Genet's mission in John C. Miller, The Federalist Era, 1789-1801(1960). See also George Gates Raddin, Caritat and the Genet Episode (1953).
