Treaty of Paris ( 1814 ) The Treaty of Paris , signed on 30 May 1814 , ended the war between France and the Sixth Coalition , part of the Napoleonic Wars , following an armistice signed on 23 May between Charles , Count of Artois , and the allies . It established peace between France and the United Kingdom , Russia , Austria , and Prussia , who in March had defined their common war aim in Chaumont , and was also signed by Portugal and Sweden . Spain signed later in July . Peace talks had started on 9 May between Talleyrand , who negotiated for the exiled Bourbon king Louis XVIII of France , and the allies of Chaumont , who had agreed to reduce France to her 1792 borders and restore the independence of her neighbors after Napoleon Bonaparte ' s defeat . The allied parties did not sign a common document , but instead concluded separate treaties with France allowing for specific amendments . In addition to the cession of hostilities , the treaty provided a rough draft of a final settlement , which according to article 32 was to be concluded within the next two months at a congress involving all belligerents of the Napoleonic Wars . This provision resulted in the Congress of Vienna , held between September 1814 and June 1815 . The preliminary conditions already agreed on in Paris were moderate for France to not disturb the re - enthronement of the returned Bourbon king : France ' borders of 1 June 1792 were confirmed , and in addition , she was allowed to retain Saarbrücken , Saarlouis , Landau , the County of Montbéliard , part of Savoy with Annecy and Chambéry , also Avignon and the Comtat Venaissin as well as artifacts acquired during the war , while on the other hand she had to cede several colonies . To distinguish this agreement from a second treaty of Paris , concluded on 20 November 1815 as one of the treaties amending Vienna , the treaty of 30 May 1814 is sometimes referred to as the First Peace of Paris . Terms of the Treaty . The treaty reapportioned several territories amongst various countries . Most notably , France retained all of the territory which it possessed as of 1 January 1792 , and also was returned many of the territories lost to Britain during the war . This included Guadeloupe , which had been ceded to Sweden by Britain when she entered the coalition . In return , Sweden was compensated 24 million francs and this money gave rise to the Guadeloupe Fund . The only exceptions to this were Tobago , St . Lucia , Seychelles and Mauritius . The treaty returned to Spain the territory of San Domingo that had been transferred to France by the Treaty of Basle in 1804 . This implicitly recognised French sovereignty over Saint - Domingue , which Dessalines had proclaimed independent under the name of Haiti . France only recognised the independence of Haiti in 1838 . The treaty also reinstated the Bourbon monarchy in France , in the person of Louis XVIII . The treaty also aimed to abolish the French slave trade , but not slavery , over a five - year period , and formally recognized the independence of Switzerland . Effect and aftermath . Several powers , despite the peaceful intentions of the treaty , still feared a reassertion of French power . With this in mind , the territories strengthened themselves for protection . The House of Orange , which united Belgium and the Netherlands , was created to strengthen the two aforementioned countries in case of a French attack . Many German states had been consolidated by Napoleon , and they retained this status , while Prussia gained territory in western Germany , near the border with France . In Italy , several different political entities were recognized , and the independence of Switzerland was formally recognized .