Treaty of Paris
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The Treaty of Paris, signed on May 30, 1814, concluded the Napoleonic Wars between France and the Allied powers. France, under the restored Bourbon dynasty, was granted generous terms, retaining its pre-revolutionary boundaries of January 1, 1792, and most of its overseas colonies. However, Great Britain gained Tobago, Saint Lucia, and the Île-de-France. The treaty also stipulated that a Congress of Vienna would finalize territorial arrangements.1
A second treaty, dated November 20, 1815, was signed after Napoleon's brief return to power and subsequent defeat at the Battle of Waterloo. This treaty imposed harsher terms on France, including financial indemnities and an occupied territory, and adjusted its borders to those of January 1, 1790.1
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GermanyThe Wars of Liberation…of peace in the first Treaty of Paris (May 30) ended the Wars of Liberation except for the episode of the Hundred Days, when Napoleon briefly returned to power and was ultimately beaten at Waterloo. The western frontier of the German states was to remain essentially the same as at…
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history of Saint LuciaFrench and British territorial rivalry…Britain in 1814 by the Treaty of Paris, after which it became a crown colony. During 1838–85, together with the other islands of the Windward group, it was administered by the governor of Barbados.
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- Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh
…of Napoleon the Treaty of Paris (May 1814) secured immediate British requirements (the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy and the separation of the Low Countries as an independent kingdom) and set Castlereagh free to play a commanding and mediatory role at the peace conference at Vienna. His main European objectives…
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Klemens von MetternichMinistry during the Napoleonic WarsThe first Treaty of Paris (May 30, 1814) stipulated nothing more for Germany than a loose confederation of states.
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