Editing Wolfe Tone (section)

=== Lobbies the French Directory ===
When in February he arrived in Paris, Tone found that, forwarded by Adet, his ''Memorials on the State of Ireland'' had already come to the attention of [[Lazare Carnot]], one of five members of the then governing [[French Directory|Directory]].<ref name=":042" /> Tone was not aware of it at the time, but his picture of Ireland as primed for liberation was being reinforced by the still more enthusiastic reports from two new United militants, formerly in the ranks of Grattan parliamentary opposition, [[Lord Edward FitzGerald|Lord Edward Fitzgerald]] and [[Arthur O'Connor (United Irishman)|Arthur O'Connor]].<ref name=":1222" />{{rp|78–80}}

By May, [[Henri Jacques Guillaume Clarke|General Henri Clarke]], the Irish-descendant head of the War Ministry's ''Bureau Topographique'', had drafted an invasion plan. In June, Carnot offered General [[Lazare Hoche]] command of an expedition that would secure “the safety of France for centuries to come".<ref name=":0" />{{rp|280–287}} According to a French sympathiser, Tone's enthusiasm for the venture was qualified by "the express condition that the French should come to Ireland as allies, and should act under direction of the new government, as [[Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau|Rochambeau]] had done in America".<ref>{{cite book |last=Regnault |first=Eugene |title=The Criminal History of the English Government from the First Massacure of the Irish, to the Poisoning of the Chinese, Translated from the French, with Notes by an American |publisher=JS Redfield, Clinton Hall |year=1843 |location=New York |pages=37}}</ref> Tone had already recorded his resolve never to be an "accessory to subjecting my country to the control of France merely to get rid of England".<ref name="writings" />{{rp|154}}