The Peace of Basel of 1795 consists of three peace treaties involving France (represented by François de Barthélemy).
The effect was the emergence of revolutionary France as a major European power.
The 5 April 1795 agreement between France had been under discussion since 1794. Prussia withdrew from the coalition that was working on the impending partition of Poland, and where appropriate, withdrew troops against Austria and Russia that were at their disposal. (see also the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars) In secret Prussia recognized French control of the west bank of Rhine, pending a cession by the Imperial Diet, while France returned all of the lands east of the Rhine captured during the war. On the night of the 6th April the document was signed by the representatives of France and Prussia, François de Barthélemy and Karl August von Hardenberg. They were not face to face, each was in his own accommodation in Rosshof or the Markgräflerhof, and the papers were passed around by a courier. The contract that gave left bank of was in a secret article, along with the promise that it would indemnify the right bank, if the left bank of the Rhine should be covered in a final general peace in France. Peter Ochs was the writer he served as a mediator for a significant proportion of these financial statements.
In the second 1795 Treaty of Basel (22 July) Spain ceded the eastern two-thirds of the island of Hispaniola to France. The French also came at night to sign the peace treaty between France and Spain, where Spain was represented by Domingo d'Yriarte . This time it was done in the mansion of Peter Ochs, the Holsteinerhof.
After these treaties with Prussia and Spain that only left two main opponents of the French Republic from the 1st Coalition war.
On 28 August 1795 the third part of the three part Treaty of Basil was finally made. This was a peace between France and Hessen-Kassel; it was done by Friedrich Sigismund Waitz von Eschen.
Marie Thérèse Charlotte de Bourbon, daughter of the French king was there during the peace negotiations in Basel in 1793. There was also an agreement to exchange the Austrian troops that had been captured in Belgium.