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.
France was ATTACKING our ships at sea.
They were seizing prizes of war engaged in the British trade under the pro-British exclusivity terms of the Jay Treaty.
Was France in the right to do so? No. But was it entirely unprovoked either? No. And Adams was sensible enough to negotiate a peaceful resolution to the problem at a time when Hamilton was trying to drive us head first into an all out war so his little standing army wouldn't go to waste.