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Charles Gravier, comet de Vergennes was Louis XVI's foreign minister. He received his appointment as foreign minister in 1774.
The Frech Minister of Foreign Affairs was Aristide Briand?
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, the French foreign minister, refused to see the US commissioners unless they paid a bribe. This incident became known as the XYZ Affair and strained relations between the United States and France.
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I believe it was the French President Nicolas Sarkozy. Or perhaps his Foreign Affairs minister Bernard Kouchner.
[jean]silvain van DE weyer 1st Belgian minister for foreign affairs 1831
$250,000 just to see him
The XYZ Affair was an incident in 1798, during a period when French privateers were regularly seizing U.S. merchant ships, and that precipitated an undeclared war between the US and France . President John Adams sent emissaries to France to negotiate . They were met by three French agents who identified themselves as X,Y and Z and demanded a substantial bribe for access to the French foreign minister. The Americans were outraged.
The XYZ Affair was an incident in 1798, during a period when French privateers were regularly seizing U.S. merchant ships, and that precipitated an undeclared war between the US and France . President John Adams sent emissaries to France to negotiate . They were met by three French agents who identified themselves as X,Y and Z and demanded a substantial bribe for access to the French foreign minister. The Americans were outraged.
Georges Bidault .
Georges Bidault was the French Minister of Foreign Affairs
Talleyrand