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Under the terms of the treaty, parts of France were to be occupied by up to 150,000 soldiers for five years, with France covering the cost. However, the Coalition occupation under the command of the Duke of Wellington was deemed necessary for only three years; the foreign troops withdrew from France in 1818 (Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle). [2] [3]
Events from the year 1815 in France. Incumbents. Monarch – ... Allied Occupation of France continues until November 1818. Births. January to June
Military occupations of France may refer to: Sixth Coalition occupation of France (1814) Seventh Coalition occupation of France (1815–1818), under the command of the Duke of Wellington; Prussian occupation of northern France, during the Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871) and afterwards (1871-1873) as a guarantee of the payment of war reparations
The Treaty of Paris was signed on 20 November 1815. The 1815 treaty contained stronger punitive terms than the treaty of the previous year. France was ordered to pay 700 million francs in indemnities, and the country's borders were reduced to what they had been on January 1, 1790, save for the annexation of two small enclaves.
In November 1815 a formal Peace treaty between France and the Seventh Coalition was signed. The Treaty of Paris (1815) was not as generous to France as the Treaty of Paris (1814) had been. France lost territory, had to pay reparations, and agreed to pay for an army of occupation for not less than five years.
The Duke of Wellington and the British Army of Occupation in France, 1815–1818 (illustrated ed.). Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. pp. ix, 4, 114, 120. ISBN 978-0-3132-7941-6. Waln, Robert (1825). Life of the Marquis de La Fayette: Major General in the Service of the United States of America, in the War of the Revolution...
It lasted from 18 May 1804 to 4 April 1814 and again briefly from 20 March 1815 to 7 July 1815, when Napoleon was exiled to St. Helena. [6] Although France had already established a colonial empire overseas since the early 17th century, the French state had remained a kingdom under the Bourbons and a republic after the French Revolution.
On 3 July 1815 the commissioners surrendered Paris under the terms of the Convention of St. Cloud. [7] With the capital and departments occupied by Coalition troops, the Executive Commission was unable to function and resigned on 7 July 1815. [8] The ministry of Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord took office on 9 July 1815. [9]