Genet was the great great grandson of Edmond-Charles Genêt, also known as Citizen Genêt, the French Ambassador to the United States shortly before the French Revolution who is mostly remembered for being the cause of an international incident known as the Citizen Genêt Affair.

When French Ambassador Edmond-Charles Genêt, popularly known as Citizen Genêt, arrived in the United States in April 1793, George Rogers Clark was already considering an expedition to capture Spanish lands in the west.

Ross famously thought " Genêt " was French for " Janet ".

Citizen Genêt was the French minister who interfered in U. S. politics

* Janet Flanner ( Genêt ), Paris was Yesterday, ( 1972 ), articles from The New Yorker, 1925 – 1939.

Edmond-Charles Genêt ( January 8, 1763 – July 14, 1834 ), also known as Citizen Genêt, was a French ambassador to the United States during the French Revolution.

Genêt was born in Versailles in 1763.

Genêt was a prodigy who could read French, English, Italian, Latin, Swedish, and German by the age of 12.

At 18, Genêt was appointed court translator, and in 1788 he was sent to the French embassy in Saint Petersburg.

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.

Clark proposed to Genêt that, with French financial support, he could lead an expedition to drive the Spanish out of the Mississippi Valley.

Arthur St. Clair, governor of the American Northwest Territory, also admonished Shelby against cooperation with Genêt.

Washington had a recent experience with foreign interference, when in 1793 the French ambassador Edmond-Charles Genêt organized demonstrations in support of France, funded soldiers to attack Spanish lands, and commissioned privateers to seize British ships.

Over time, Genêt became disenchanted with the ancien régime, learning to despise not just the French monarchy but all monarchical systems, including Tsarist Russia under Catherine the Great.

Working with French consul Michel Ange Bernard Mangourit, Genêt organized American volunteers to fight Britain's Spanish allies in Florida.

When Genêt met with Washington, he asked for what amounted to a suspension of American neutrality.

With his career seemingly over and his prospects for prosperity doubtful, on February 2, 1793, Clark offered his services to Edmond-Charles Genêt, the controversial ambassador of revolutionary France, hoping to earn money to maintain his estate.

The French government recalled Genêt and revoked the commissions he granted to the Americans for the war against Spain.

Instead of traveling to the then-capital of Philadelphia to present himself to U. S. President George Washington for accreditation, Genêt stayed in South Carolina.

After raising a militia, Genêt set sail toward Philadelphia, stopping along the way to marshal support for the French cause and arriving on May 18.

Genêt, knowing that he would likely be sent to the guillotine, asked Washington for asylum.

The revolutionary government of France sent diplomat Edmond-Charles Genêt, called " Citizen Genêt ," to America.

Genêt appointed Clark " Major General in the Armies of France and Commander-in-chief of the French Revolutionary Legion on the Mississippi River.

Jefferson's successor Edmund Randolph, who actually received Shelby's letter, wrote Shelby to inform him of the new powers at his disposal, and informing him that the new regime in France had recalled Genêt.

" The same year, the Girondists rose to power in France and appointed Genêt to the post of minister to the United States.

The Jacobins, having taken power in France by January 1794, sent an arrest notice which asked Genêt to come back to France.

Washington, warning and mistrustful of the influence of Illuminism that had been so strong in the French Revolution and its Reign of Terror, demanded the French government recall Genêt, and denounced the societies.

* 1763 – Edmond Charles Genêt, French diplomat ( d. 1834 )

* 1834 – Edmond-Charles Genêt, French ambassador ( b. 1763 )

But when French minister Citizen Genêt set up a network of pro-Jacobin " Democratic-Republican Societies " that entered American politics and attacked President Washington, Webster condemned them.

In 1793, the French minister Edmond-Charles Genêt caused a crisis when he tried to influence public opinion by appealing to the American people, something which Jefferson tried to stop.

* July 14 – Edmond Charles Genêt, French ambassador to the United States during the French Revolution ( b. 1763 )

* January 8 – Edmond Charles Genêt, French ambassador to the United States during the French Revolution ( d. 1834 )

* Edmond-Charles Genêt or Citizen Genêt ( 1763 – 1834 ), French ambassador to the United States

During the campaign Shelby's political enemies, notably Humphrey Marshall, criticized his response to Jefferson's second letter regarding the Genêt affair and questioned his loyalty to the United States.

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