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. 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. Some of the letters that he wrote were intercepted and used to embarrass Edmund Randolph.
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.
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