2 sentences with 'emissaries'

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« The French foreign minister, Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand, sent emissaries who told the American envoys that the United States must pay all outstanding debts to France, lend France 32 million guilders (Dutch currency) and pay a bribe of 50,000 pounds before any negotiations could take place. »
« The news of the attempted bribe, known as the XYZ affair because the French emissaries were named X, Y and Z in the letters President Adams sent to Congress, outraged American public opinion and turned it decisively against France. In the court of public opinion, the Federalists appeared to be right in their interpretation of France, while the pro-French Democratic-Republicans had been misled. »

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