PARIS, TREATY OF


Meaning of PARIS, TREATY OF in English

(1815) Second treaty between France and the Allies, following Napoleon 's Hundred Days and final defeat.

It was harsher than the first Treaty of Paris (1814). France was required to return to its borders of 1790 and was stripped of the Saar and Savoy regions; it was also obliged to pay an indemnity of 700 million francs and to support a 150,000-man army of occupation for three to five years.

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