Citizen Genêt Affair, incident precipitated by the military adventurism of Citizen Edmond-Charles Genêt, a minister to the United States dispatched by the revolutionary Girondist regime of the new French Republic, which at the time was at war with Great Britain and Spain.
Citizen Genêt Affair, in the time of (1793), incident caused by the military adventurism of Citizen Edmond-Charles Genêt, a minister to the United States executed by the revolutionary Girondist regime of the new French Republic, which at the time was at war with Great Britain and Spain.
