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==Impact ==
In a manoeuver of great diplomatic cunning, the treaties enabled France to placate and divide its enemies (the allies of the First Coalition) one by one, and thereafter, revolutionaryRevolutionary France emerged as a major European power.<ref>Francois Furet and Mona Ozouf, eds. ''A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution'' (1989) pp 151-54</ref>
The agreement of 5 April 1795 between France and Prussia had been under discussion since 1794. Prussia withdrew from the coalition that was working on the impending partition of Poland, and, where appropriate, withdrew its troops that were aligned against Austria and Russia. (seeSee also the [[French Revolutionary Wars]] and the [[Napoleonic Wars]].) In secret, Prussia recognized 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 6 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 contract that ceded the left bank of the Rhine was in a secret article, along with the promise that it would indemnify the right bank, if the left bank of the Rhine should be covered in a final general peace in France. [[Peter Ochs]] drew up the Treaty 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.
In the second 1795 Treaty of Basel (22 July), Spain ceded the eastern two- thirds of the island of [[Hispaniola]] to France in exchange for keeping [[Gipuzkoa]]. The French also came at night to sign the peace treaty between France and Spain, wherein which Spain was represented by [[Domingo d'Yriarte]], .who Thissigned timethe it was donetreaty in the mansion of [[Peter Ochs]], the Holsteinerhof. It was signed for Spain by [[Don Domingo d'Yriarte]].
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 Basel was completed. This was, a peace between France and the [[Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel]];, signed by [[Friedrich Sigismund Waitz von Eschen]].
There was also an agreement to exchange the Austrian troops that had been captured in Belgium.
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