The Treaty of Paris of 15 May 1796 was a

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between the French Republic and the

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during the

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. After four years of fighting, the French under Bonaparte had finally beaten the Piedmontese army in the

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, and on 21 April 1796 in the

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. This forced King

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to sign an armistice at

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one week later, abandoning the

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against the French Republic. In the following treaty King Victor Amadeus III recognized the French Republic, ceded the original Duchy of Savoy and the

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to France and gave the French Army free passage through his territory towards the rest of Italy. The King died a few months after signing the treaty. The French interest in Savoy had already been demonstrated in 1792 when the revolutionaries had annexed these lands as the 84th French Département under the name

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. This had provoked the war with Piedmont-Sardinia. Piedmont-Sardinia never accepted these losses and in the

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they retrieved part of Savoy, and one year later in the

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, the rest of these territories. They would be regained by France under

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Paris (1796) 1796 treaties Treaties of the Kingdom of Sardinia History of Piedmont Peace treaties of the French Revolutionary Wars 1796 in Italy 1796 in France 18th century in Paris Treaties of the French First Republic France–Kingdom of Sardinia relations 18th century in the Kingdom of Sardinia