TREATY OF PARIS OF 1815.


PREFECTURE DU CALVADOS. Traite de Paix. Caen: chez A. Le Roy, November 30, 1815. Printed broadside, 440 x 345 mm. Mild darkening edges untrimmed.PEACE AT LAST. The Prefect of Calvados in Normandy, Ferdinand de Bertier de Sauvigny (1782-1864), announces that on November 20, a peace treaty was signed between the King of France and Navarre and the coalition allies (Austria, Great Britain, Prussia and Russia). The terms of the 1815 treaty were more punitive than those of the previous year: France was required to pay 700 million franks in indemnities, her borders were reduced, and she was to pay for an occupying force of 150,000 for a period of 5 years. The broadside ends with the comment that the people of France share the pain of their monarch ("nous partageons sa douceur") after this defeat.