Peace of Basel

Peace of Basel

Map shows Central Europe after the Peace of Basel and the Treaty of Campo Formio.
Context	End of the War of the First Coalition between France and Prussia, France and Spain, France and Hesse-Kassel
Signed	1795
Location	Basel, Old Swiss Confederation
Signatories	First French Republic Kingdom of Prussia Kingdom of Spain Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel

The Peace of Basel of 1795 consists of three peace treaties involving France during the French Revolution (represented by François de Barthélemy).^[1]

• The first was with Prussia (represented by Karl August von Hardenberg) on 5 April;^[2]
• The second was with Spain (represented by Domingo d'Yriarte) on 22 July, ending the War of the Pyrenees; and
• 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.^[1]

With great diplomatic cunning, the treaties enabled France to placate and divide its enemies of the First Coalition, one by one. Thereafter, Revolutionary France emerged as a major European power.^[3]