"Genet" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... chose n'a pas fait une goutte de sang; C'est mieux. Mais, tout a coup, la cloche au loin eclate; Les monts gris sont bordes d'un long fil ecarlate; Et voici que, partant des branches de genet, Le peuple vient chercher sa dame; l'aube nait. Les hameaux sont en branle, on accourt; et, vermeille, Mahaud, en meme temps que l'aurore, s'eveille; Elle pense rever et croit que le brouillard A pris ces jeunes gens pour en faire un ...
— La Legende des Siecles • Victor Hugo
... lay one rather,' returned lord Herbert. 'But first I would discover this same perilous fault in the armour of my house. Is thy genet still ...
— St. George and St. Michael • George MacDonald
... his last important service, his subsequent expeditions proving failures. His later years were spent in poverty and seclusion, and his social habits became none of the best. In 1793 he imprudently accepted a commission as major-general from Genet, the French diplomatic agent, and essayed to raise a French revolutionary legion in the West to overcome the Spanish settlements on the Mississippi; upon Genet's recall, Clark's commission was canceled. Later, he sought to ...
— Chronicles of Border Warfare • Alexander Scott Withers
... 1789 France had been in a state of revolution, and at last (in 1792) the people established the French Republic, cut off the heads of the King and Queen (in 1793), and declared war on England and sent a minister, Genet, to the United States. At that time we had no treaty with Great Britain except the treaty of peace. With France, however, we had two treaties,—one of alliance, and one of amity and commerce. The treaty of alliance bound us to guarantee to France "the ...
— A School History of the United States • John Bach McMaster
... one passes a schoolhouse overlooking the flats and the guide board says 3-1/2 miles to Castleton, once lived "Citizen" Genet, and his house still stands a quarter of a mile back on Prospect Hill, facing the cross road to East Greenbush. Edmond Charles Genet was sent out to this country in the Spring of 1793 by the new French Republic. Things moved rapidly in France in those days, and Genet's friends were soon removed ...
— The New York and Albany Post Road • Charles Gilbert Hine
... 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 opinions in writing ...
— From Isolation to Leadership, Revised - A Review of American Foreign Policy • John Holladay Latane |
