"Genet" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... 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 |
