"Genet" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... our country. A few years later came the French Revolution, the establishment of the French Republic followed by the execution of Louis XVI, and in 1793 the war between England and France. With the arrival in this country of Genet, the minister of the newly established French Republic, there began a heated debate in the newspapers throughout the country as to our obligations under the treaty of alliance and the commercial treaty of 1778. President Washington requested the ...
— From Isolation to Leadership, Revised - A Review of American Foreign Policy • John Holladay Latane |
