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Vergennes and appointment
When Chavigny met Louis XV at Versailles, he lobbied for Vergennes to be given an appointment.

Vergennes and was
It was further exacerbated by Vergennes ' prodding Louis XVI to get involved in Great Britain's war with its North American colonies, due to France's traditional rivalry with Great Britain.
Instead, after the death of the comte de Maurepas, the influence of Vergennes was strengthened, and she was again left out of political affairs.
The 50th Anniversary was celebrated at a Senior Girl Scout Roundup held at Button Bay in Vergennes, Vermont in 1962.
On arriving in Paris, Deane at once opened negotiations with the Comte de Vergennes who was the French Foreign Minister.
Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes ( 20 December 1717 – 13 February 1787 ) was a French statesman and diplomat.
The objective of Chavigny and Vergennes in Lisbon was to keep Portugal from entering the War of the Austrian Succession on the side of Britain, a task that proved relatively easy as the Portuguese had little interest in joining the war.
In 1743 Vergennes accompanied his uncle to the court of Charles VII who was the ruler of Bavaria and also held the title of Holy Roman Emperor.
In November 1745 Chavigny was relieved of his post, and returned to France accompanied by Vergennes.
In 1750 Vergennes was appointed as Ambassador to the Electorate of Trier, one of the smaller German electorates.
In April 1752 Vergennes was appointed as envoy to George II of Great Britain in his separate role as Elector of Hanover.
The Congress was regarded as a diplomatic triumph for Vergennes and he received praise from Newcastle for his skills.
To counter a last attempt by Austria to get an agreement, Vergennes was sent to the Palatine in January 1753 where he secured confirmation that they would stick to France's strategy.
The reason for Vergennes ' original lesser rank was because sending a new ambassador was a time-consuming elaborate ceremony and there was a sense of urgency because of the death of the previous ambassador.
Vergennes arrived in Constantinople as the Seven Years War was brewing and a new monarch Osman III had recently come to the throne.
In his official orders Vergennes was ordered not to agree any treaty, but he received secret instructions from the King to agree a treaty if it supported the King's schemes in Eastern Europe.
A dramatic reversal of Russian policies following the succession of Peter III forced Vergennes to return to his previous policy of encouraging anti-Russian sentiment, only to change again when Peter was overthrown by his wife Catherine.
The Treaty of Paris in 1763, brought an end to the war but France was forced to cede significant territory to the British easing some of the strains on Vergennes.
Although he thought the strategy unwise, Vergennes continuously advocated war in Constantinople by trying to convince that Ottomans that war was the only way to check Russia's rising power.
In France Vergennes encountered strong disapproval for his marriage and was aware that he returned home in disgrace.
In spite of his doubts, Vergennes was successful in persuading the Ottomans to declare war against Russia, and in 1768 the Russo-Turkish War broke out.

Vergennes and British
The Republic involved itself in the peace congress that the French foreign minister Vergennes organized, negotiating separately with the British commissioners.
Vergennes faced an immediate challenge, as the British were planning to have an Austrian candidate Archduke Joseph elected as King of the Romans, a position that designated the next Holy Roman Emperor.
Vergennes ' rivalry with the British, and his desire to avenge the disasters of the Seven Years ' War, led to his support of the Thirteen Colonies in the American War of Independence.
In the wake of the Battle of Saratoga, a defeat for the British, Vergennes feared that the British and colonists might reconcile.
Vergennes continued to send large amounts of money to keep the war effort afloat, but the British regained the initiative with their Southern Strategy.
This seriously undermined Vergennes ' plans, as he had anticipated a swift and simple war against the British.
Vergennes believed the Dutch were most valuable as neutrals, as they could supply France through the British blockade, than as allies.
" Although he continued to enjoy a warm relationship with Benjamin Franklin, the American peace commissioners John Jay and John Adams distrusted Vergennes ' motives and began separate peace talks with British envoys.
When Vergennes discovered in November 1782 that the Americans had concluded a separate peace with the British, he felt betrayed, as they had previously agreed that a joint peace would be negotiated between them.
Worried that another year of war would result in further British victories, Vergennes was keen to reach an agreement.
Despite an original openness to the alliance, after word of the Declaration of Independence and a British evacuation of Boston reached France, the French Foreign Minister, Comte de Vergennes, put off signing a formal alliance with the United States after receiving news of British victories over General George Washington in New York.

Vergennes and plan
Long before France's open entry into the war, Vergennes approved of the Pierre Beaumarchais's plan for secret French assistance.
Vergennes went so far as to propose war to King Louis XVI in August 1776, but news of Howe's capture of New York City scuttled that plan.

Vergennes and for
A reunion is planned for the centennial of Girl Scouting in September 2012 in Vergennes.
Vergennes ' efforts to convince the Ottomans to intervene in the election were undermined by a failure to settle on a single French candidate for the throne and both France and the Turks were eventually forced to acknowledge Stanislas as King.
Despite his opposition to the policy, Vergennes still took credit in France for having fulfilled his orders to provoke a war.
American historians have often portrayed Vergennes as a visionary, because of his support for United States independence.
When war broke out in 1775, the Comte de Vergennes, then the Foreign Minister, outlined a series of proposals that led to secret French and also Spanish support of the rebel movement, and some preparations for the possibility of war, including expansion of their navies.
When this news reached the capitals of Europe, King George was happy, and the Comte de Vergennes was not, as the news effectively scuttled an early proposal for French entry into the war.
He owed the position to the Comte de Vergennes, who for over three years continued to support him.
Twilight taught for four years in Peru, then moved to Vergennes, Vermont in 1828 to teach during the week and hold services on weekends in Waltham and Ferrisburg.
Lyon was sentenced to four months in a Vergennes jail cell of dimensions 16 ' x 12 ' used for felons, counterfeiters, thieves, and runaway slaves, and ordered to pay a $ 1, 000 fine and court costs, while Judge Paterson lamented being unable to give a harsher punishment.
Thus d ' Aiguillon was blamed for having provoked the coup d ' état of Gustavus III, king of Sweden, in 1772, although the instructions of the comte de Vergennes, the French ambassador in Sweden, had been written by the minister, the Duc de la Vrillère.
He gave Turgot the direction of finance, placed Lamoignon-Malesherbes over the royal household and made Vergennes minister for foreign affairs.
In 1982, Dubie joined Simmons Precision ( now Goodrich Aerospace ) in Vergennes, Vermont, where he was a project engineer and project manager, developing fuel systems for military and commercial aircraft.
Spain, at the urging of Vergennes, matched France's one million livres for the operation of Hortalez et Cie.
Deane engaged his services and issued Aitken a passport signed by French Foreign Minister Vergennes with instructions to French officials: " We will and command you very expressly to let pass safely and freely, Mr. James Actzen, going to England, without giving him or suffering him any hindrance ; but on the contrary giving every aid and assistance that he shall want or occasion for.
In 1786 he was permitted by Vergennes to return to France as an Austrian counselor of state, and to sue the duc d ' Aiguillon ( 1730-1798 ), the former minister of Louis XV, for fees due him for legal services rendered some fifteen years earlier.

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