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Genet

noun

French diplomat who in 1793 tried to draw the United States into the war between France and England (1763-1834). Synonyms: Citizen Genet, Edmund Charles Edouard Genet.

French writer of novels and dramas for the theater of the absurd (1910-1986). Synonym: Jean Genet.

Agile Old World viverrine having a spotted coat and long ringed tail. Synonym: Genetta genetta.

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... 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

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Words linked to "Genet" : novelist, dramatist, playwright, viverrine mammal, diplomat, viverrine, diplomatist