Treaty of Chaumont
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The Treaty of Chaumont was a rejected cease-fire offered by the Allies of the Sixth Coalition to Napoleon Bonaparte in 1814.
Following discussions in late February 1814, representatives of Austria, Prussia, Russia, and Great Britain reconvened a meeting at Chaumont on 1 March 1814. The resulting Treaty of Chaumont was signed on 9 March 1814, (although dated 1 March), by Tsar Alexander I (with Metternich), Emperor Francis II, King Frederick William III, and British Foreign Secretary Viscount Castlereagh. The Treaty called for Napoleon to give up all conquests, thus reverting France back to her 1791 (Pre-French Revolutionary Wars) borders, in exchange for a cease-fire. If Napoleon rejected the treaty, the Allies pledged to continue the war. The following day Napoleon rejected the treaty, ending his last chance of a negotiated settlement.
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- Chandler, David. Dictionary of the Napoleonic wars. Wordsworth editions, 1999.
