Adet Pierre Auguste 1763-1832 Appointed On The 10th Thermidor


member of the French Council of Mines. In 1795, went to the United

States in the capacity of plenipotentiary. In 1796 presented to the

United States Congress the tricolour flag on behalf of the French

nation; and the following year, handed to the secretary of state the

famous note in which the Directoire, complaining to the American

government of breach of neutrality, stated that the republic would give

to every neutral flag the same treatment that the latter would get from

Great Britain. =Index=: (Lord Dorchester era) French minister to United States, intrigues

of, 300, 301.



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