| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 96.2

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Book Review

This Bright Era of Happy Revolutions: French Consul Michel-Ange-Bernard Mangourit and International Republicanism in Charleston, 1792–1794. By Robert J. Alderson Jr. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2008. xiv, 273 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-1-57003-745-0.)

The author of this well-researched, sprightly study concentrates on the short career of Michel Mangourit, the best-known French consul in the United States in the 1790s. Mangourit was a Girondist who served for two years as French consul in Charleston, South Carolina, before being recalled when the Girondists lost control of the National Assembly. When France and Great Britain entered the American Revolutionary War, Mangourit, directed by French minister to the United States Edmond Genêt, supervised the projected attacks on Spanish Florida and Louisiana by enlisting U.S. citizens on the side of France. Mangourit also directed French shipping to attack commercial vessels from Spain and Great Britain. Mangourit's efforts were quickly stymied in the federal courts by Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson at the behest of President George Washington.

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