Jefferson was playing footsie with the most deadly enemy facing the US. Much like if Biden was secretly undermining foreign policy with al Queda
Last I checked, France never landed an attacking army in the United States and much to the contrary, actually gave us troops to expel another army - the British. As in the very same British that invaded us a decade before Hamilton played footsie with them and invaded us again a decade after Hamilton played footsie with them.
In other words, you've got your silly little analogy backwards.
You are speaking of different Frenchmen.
Those who fought with us against the Brits were generally in JAIL or EXECUTED by the terrorists whom Jefferson exalted. People like Lafayette were declared enemies by Jefferson’s French friends. He barely escaped with his life from the fanatics’ prison and had to shelter his son with Hamilton’s family.
And who do you think was seizing our ships in the hundreds (far more than the Brits were doing) in the 1790s? France was ATTACKING our ships at sea.