The Treaty of Paris was signed on 25 June 1802 between the First French Republic, then under First Consul

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, and the

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, then ruled by Sultan Selim III. It was the final form of a preliminary treaty signed at Paris on 9 October 1801 that brought to an end the

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and restored Franco-Ottoman relations to their '' status quo ante bellum''. In the treaty the Ottoman Empire also assented to the

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(25 March 1802), a peace treaty between France and the

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, which had followed the surrender of French troops in Egypt to the British at the

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. Relations between the Ottoman Empire and France had been strained with the French acquisition of the Ionian Islands in 1797, and the consequent anti-Ottoman propaganda disseminated in the Balkans by French agents. When the French invaded Egypt, the Ottomans declared war (9 September 1798) and subsequently signed a treaty of alliance with

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(23 December). This was the beginning of the Second Coalition. During the war, the Ionian Islands were re-conquered with Russian help and a Republic under Ottoman sovereignty set up. The treaty uses three systems of dating: the French Revolutionary calendar, the

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and the

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. The French signatory was

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and the Ottoman was Seyyid Mehmed Said Galip Efendi. After the treaty, the Ottomans retained good relations with the French.

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References

*Kahraman Sakul
''An Ottoman Global Movement: War of Second Coalition in the Levant''
PhD diss. Georgetown University, 2009.

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