Jean Antoine Joseph Fauchet

French diplomat

Jean Antoine Joseph Fauchet (1761, in Saint-Quentin – 1834, in Paris) was a French diplomat, and French ambassador to the United States.

He studied law. When the French Revolution broke out, he published pamphlets praising the event. He was a secretary in the Ministry of War, and then Executive Council.

He was appointed ambassador to the United States, with orders to arrest Edmond-Charles Genêt.^[1] He wrote an essay about Franco-American relations and America itself (translated by W. Duane, 1797). He pressed the United States for repayment of the loans that had been made.^[2]^[3] Some of the letters that he wrote were intercepted and used to embarrass Edmund Randolph.^[4]

He supported Napoleon's coup d'etat, and was made a prefect of Var, and then Gironde. In 1805, he was made a baron. He was dismissed during the Bourbon Restoration in 1814.^[5]

Works

Coup d'oeil rapide sur l'etat actuel de nos rapports politiques avec les Etats Unis d'Amerique septentrionale, 1797

References

^ Henry Franklin Graff, ed. (2002). The presidents: a reference history. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-684-31226-2.
^ Harold Coffin Syrett; Jacob Ernest Cooke, eds. (1972). The papers of Alexander Hamilton. Vol. 16. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-08915-9.
^ Robert Allen Rutland (1997). James Madison: the founding father. University of Missouri Press. p. 131. ISBN 978-0-8262-1141-5.
^ "Edmund Jennings Randolph - People - Department History - Office of the Historian".
^ Darius Alexander Spieth (2007). Napoleon's sorcerers: the Sophisians. Associated University Presse. ISBN 978-0-87413-957-0.

External links

"Jean Antoine Joseph Fauchet", Papers of the War Department
Fauchet, Jean Antoine Joseph > French minister to U.S., Papers of James Madison
"Fauchet, Jean Antoine Joseph", The Papers of George Washington