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* {{flagicon|France}} [[First French First Republic]]

* {{flagicon|Spain|1785}} [[Kingdom of Spain (1700–1808)|Kingdom of Spain]]

|location_signed = [[Basel]], [[Old Swiss Confederation]]

|date_signed = {{Start date|df=yes|1795|4|5}}

The '''Peace of [[Basel]]''' of 1795 consists of three peace treaties involving France during the [[French Revolution]] (represented by [[François de Barthélemy]]).{{sfn|Jorio|2002}}

*The first of the three treaties of 1795 (First Treaty of Basel), France made peacewas with [[Prussia]] (represented by [[Karl August von Hardenberg]]) on 5 April;<ref>Treaty of Basel 1795 emersonkent.com at http://www.emersonkent.com/historic_documents/treaty_of_basel_1795.htm</ref><ref>{{sfn|Engels, Ernst August Richard. Friedrich Nicolais "Allgemeine deutsche Bibliothek" und der Friede von Basel 1795. Published: Würzburg, Buchdruckerei R. Mayr, |1936</ref>}}

*The third was with the [[Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel]] (represented by [[Friedrich Sigismund Waitz von Eschen]]) on 28 August, concluding the stage of the [[French Revolutionary Wars]] against the [[First Coalition]].{{sfn|Jorio|2002}}

The agreementfirst oftreaty, on 5 April 1795 between France and Prussia, had been under discussion since 1794. Prussia withdrew from the coalition that washad been working on the impending partition of Poland, and, wherewhen it was appropriate, withdrew its troops that were aligned against Austria and Russia. (seeSee also the [[French Revolutionary Wars]] and the [[Napoleonic Wars]].) In secret, Prussia recognizedrecognised the French control of the west bank of the [[Rhine]], pending a cession by the [[Imperial Diet (Holy Roman Empire)|Imperial Diet]], while. France returned all of the lands east of the Rhine captured during the war. On the night of the 6th6 April, the document was signed by the representatives of France and Prussia,: François de Barthélemy and Karl August von Hardenberg. They were not face to face, each was in his own accommodation in Rosshof or the [[Markgräflerhof]], and the papers were passed around by a courier. The contracttreaty that ceded the left bank of the Rhine was in a secret article, along with the promise that it wouldof indemnifyindemnifying the right bank, if the left bank of the Rhine should bewas covered in a final general peace in France. [[Peter Ochs]] drew up the Treatytreaty and served as a mediator for a significant proportion of these financial statements.

Prussia stuck to the agreement of the Treaty of Basel until 1806, when it joined the Fourth Coalition.

These treaties with Prussia and Spain had the effect of breaking the alliance between the French Republic's two main opponents of the 1stFirst Coalition war.

On 28 August 1795, the third part of the Treaty of Baseltreaty was completed. This was, a peace between France and the [[Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel]];, signed by [[Friedrich Sigismund Waitz von Eschen]]. {{sfn|Jorio|2002}}

There was also an agreement to exchange the Austrian troops thatwho had been captured in [[Belgium]].

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