[2] Raymond Verninac arrived at Constantinople on 12 April 1795 with the title of Envoy of the French Republic.
[2] Verninac was not successful in improving relations between the Porte and France, since the Turks were not sympathetic to the recent French Revolution.
On 9 April 1797 Verninac had a long interview with the general Napoleon Bonaparte, who appears to have accepted this view.
[4] The idea took hold in Napoleon's mind, and on 16 August 1797 he wrote to the Directory revealing his plan to attack Egypt.
Charles Étienne Raymond Victor de Verninac was born in Paris on 19 November 1803, the couple's only child.