Treaty of Paris

(noun)

A 1763 treaty signed by the kingdoms of Great Britain, France and Spain, with Portugal in agreement, after Great Britain's victory over France and Spain during the Seven Years' War. The signing of the treaty formally ended the Seven Years' War, known as the French and Indian War in the North American theater, and marked the beginning of an era of British dominance outside Europe. Great Britain and France each returned much of the territory that they had captured during the war, but Great Britain gained much of France's possessions in North America. Additionally, Great Britain agreed to protect Roman Catholicism in the New World. The treaty did not involve Prussia and Austria as they signed a separate agreement, the Treaty of Hubertusburg.

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  • The Treaty of Paris (1763)

    • The Treaty of Paris of 1763 between Great Britain, France, and Spain, with Portugal in agreement, formally ended the Seven Years' War and marked the beginning of an era of British dominance outside Europe.
    • The Treaty of Paris is sometimes noted as the point at which France gave Louisiana to Spain. 
    • The Treaty of Paris was to give Britain the east side of the Mississippi (including Baton Rouge, Louisiana, which was to be part of the British territory of West Florida).
    • Together with the Treaty of Paris, it marked the end of the Seven Years' War.
    • Identify some of the provisions of the Treaty of Paris (1763)

  • Territorial Losses

    • A few months later, Great Britain and Prussia, enemies in the War of the Austrian Succession, signed a 1756 treaty of "neutrality."
    • In the Treaty of Paris of 1763, which ended the Seven Years' War, most of these territories were restored to their original owners although Britain made considerable gains.
    • The transfer, however, occurred with the Treaty of Fontainebleau (1762) but was not publicly announced until 1764.
    • The Treaty of Paris was to give Britain the east side of the Mississippi.
    • Europe in the years after the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1748, source: Wikipedia.

  • Napoleon and the New World

    • In the middle of the 18th century, a series of colonial conflicts began between France and Britain, which ultimately resulted in the destruction of most of the existing French colonial empire and the near complete expulsion of France from the Americas.
    • While the following peace treaty saw France's Indian outposts and the Caribbean islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe restored to France, the competition for influence in India had been won by the British and North America was entirely lost – most of New France was taken by Britain (except Louisiana, which France ceded to Spain as payment for Spain's late entrance into the war and as compensation for Britain's annexation of Spanish Florida).
    • Modest recovery of the French colonial empire was made during the French intervention in the American Revolution, with Saint Lucia being returned to France by the Treaty of Paris in 1783.
    • After a decade of constant warfare, France and Britain signed the 1802 Treaty of Amiens, bringing the French Revolutionary Wars to an end.
    • Napoleon saw his chance to recuperate the wealthy colony when he signed the Treaty of Amiens.

  • Napoleon's Rise to Power

    • He served in Valence and Auxonne until after the outbreak of the Revolution in 1789 and took nearly two years' leave in Corsica (where he was born and where he spend his early years) and Paris during this period.
    • In October 1795, royalists in Paris declared a rebellion against the National Convention.
    • The Treaty of Leoben, followed by the more comprehensive Treaty of Campo Formio, gave France control of most of northern Italy and the Low Countries, and a secret clause promised the Republic of Venice to Austria.
    • Bonaparte also sent General Pierre Augereau to Paris to lead a coup d'état and purge the royalists on September  4 (Coup of 18 Fructidor).
    • These negotiations resulted in the Treaty of Campo Formio, and Bonaparte returned to Paris in December as a hero.

  • The Fall of Paris

  • NATO and the Warsaw Pact

    • The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949.
    • The treaty and the Soviet Berlin Blockade led to the creation of the Western European Union's Defence Organization in September 1948.
    • It included the five Treaty of Brussels states plus the United States, Canada, Portugal, Italy, Norway, Denmark and Iceland.
    • The Warsaw Pact, formally the Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation, and Mutual Assistance, was a collective defense treaty among the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War.
    • The Warsaw Pact was created in reaction to the integration of West Germany into NATO in 1955 per the Paris Pacts of 1954, but it is also considered to have been motivated by Soviet desires to maintain control over military forces in Central and Eastern Europe.

  • Cardinal Mazarin and the Fronde

    • The terms of the peace treaties  ensured Dutch independence from Spain, awarded some autonomy to the various German princes of the Holy Roman Empire, and granted Sweden seats on the Imperial Diet and territories to control the mouths of the Oder, Elbe, and Weser rivers.
    • In May 1648, a tax levied on judicial officers of the Parlement of Paris provoked not merely a refusal to pay but also a condemnation of earlier financial edicts and a demand for the acceptance of a scheme of constitutional reforms framed by a united committee of the parlement (the Chambre Saint-Louis), composed of members of all the sovereign courts of Paris.
    • However, France's signing of the Peace of Westphalia allowed the French army to return from the frontiers and put Paris under siege.
    • A few months of hollow peace followed and the court returned to Paris.
    • His personal library was the origin of the Bibliothèque Mazarine in Paris.

  • The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

  • Napoleon's Military Record

    • He served in Valence and Auxonne until after the outbreak of the Revolution in 1789 and took nearly two years' leave in Corsica (where he was born and where he spent his early years) and Paris during this period.
    • Almost two years later, he would face an uprising in the heart of Paris, utilizing his skills as a gunner once again.
    • With French forces marching towards Vienna, the Austrians sued for peace and agreed to the Treaty of Campo Formio, ending the First Coalition against the Republic.
    • Another crushing French triumph at Hohenlinden in Bavaria forced the Austrians to seek peace for a second time, leading to the Treaty of Lunéville in 1801.
    • With Austria and Russia out of the war, the United Kingdom found itself increasingly isolated and agreed to the Treaty of Amiens with Napoleon's government in 1802, concluding the Revolutionary Wars.

  • The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

    • The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a declaration adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 December 1948 at the Palais de Chaillot, Paris.
    • The Declaration consists of thirty articles which, although not legally binding, have been elaborated in subsequent international treaties, economic transfers, regional human rights instruments, national constitutions, and other laws.
    • While not a treaty itself, the Declaration was explicitly adopted for the purpose of defining the meaning of the words "fundamental freedoms" and "human rights" appearing in the United Nations Charter, which is binding on all member states.
    • The principles of the Declaration are elaborated in international treaties such as the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, the International Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, the United Nations Convention Against Torture, and many more.
    • It has also served as the foundation for a growing number of national laws, international laws, and treaties, as well as for a growing number of regional, sub national, and national institutions protecting and promoting human rights.