Hello and welcome to a history of the United States.

Episode 182, Citizen Jeunet.

Last time out, we looked in the ideology that brought together the Democratic Republicans,

both in the South and in the North. We finished by turning towards the French Revolution,

with the Democratic Republicans supporting

the Revolution and France, while the Federalists were more concerned with trade relations with

Britain, and were a lulled at the forces the revolution appeared to be unbleeishing.

There was unrest across the continent. It was a delicate situation,

and there was great uncertainty over whether America would join in the European War to support France,

or whether another wave of revolution would hit American shores. At this point, April 1793, we must, regrettably, welcome onto the

stage, Citizen Edmund Charles Jeannes. Jeanne was born in 1763 in Versailles, France,

as the son of a civil servant in the Foreign Office.

He was gifted with languages and was made a court translator for the Orsseal regime at the age of 18.

At the age of 25, he was appointed ambassador to the Russian Empire in St. Petersburg.

However, Jeunet didn't like monarchists, and he earned himself the antagonism of Catherine the Great,

in 1792, by which point the French Revolution was well underway.

Therefore, the Girondins, the group in power in Paris in 1792, decided to appoint Ginez as ambassador to the United States.

Jeanne arrived in Charleston, South Carolina, on April 8, 1793, and he'd been tasked with several goals by his government.

He was to, one, get Americans to honour their treaty obligations,

two, allow French privateers to be based in American ports, and three, gain American support

for military activity in the Americas against the British and Spanish.

Jeanne was welcomed worn by Charleston,

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