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and

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signed a treaty of peace in

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on 8 October 1801. The treaty formally ended Russo-French hostilities in the

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. Two days later, on 10 October, they signed a secret convention of alliance. The signatories for both were Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord for France and Count Arkady Morkov for Russia. Ratifications were exchanged on 11 October. The French law recognizing the treaty is dated 9 December 1801. The public peace treaty contained declarations of perpetual peace and friendship. The secret convention contained the real bases for Franco-Russian relations going forward. It contained an agreement to work together to a satisfactory arrangement in the

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, which at the time was in the process of putting into effect the terms of the

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of 9 February 1801 through the a ''Reichsdeputation''. France and Russia declared it their intent to find a "just equilibrium between the Houses of Austria and Brandenburg", that is, between the Habsburgs and the Hohenzollern. Since the Tsar

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was related to the rulers of

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and

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, First Consul

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agreed to increase to their power to counterbalance the Habsburgs of

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and Hohenzollern of Brandenburg–Prussia. The Russo-French peace was part of a flurry of diplomatic activity winding down the War of the Second Coalition. Shortly before the peace with Russia, France signed a preliminary agreement with the

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in London on 1 October. This ultimately resulted in the Peace of Amiens. On 4 October, Morkov signed in Paris with

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. Between the two Franco-Russian agreements, France signed a preliminary peace with the

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in Paris on 9 October. This was finalized in the

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of June 1802.

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