In general, all conquered territories were restored to their pre-war owners. Preferring to keep Guadaloupe, France gave up Canada and all claims to territory east of the Mississippi to Britain. Spain ceded Florida to the British but later received New Orleans and Louisiana from France, and Martinique in exchange for Grenada and the Grenadines going to the British. In India the French lost out to the British, receiving back its "factories" (trading posts) but agreeing to support the British puppet governments as well as returning Sumatra and agreeing not to base troops in Bengal.
Britain returned the slave station on the isle of Gorée to the French but gained the Senegal River and its settlements. Britain agreed to demolish its fortifications in Honduras but received permission from Spain to keep a logwood-cutting colony there. Britain confirmed in the treaty the rights of its new citizens to practice the Roman Catholic religion and received confirmation of the continuation of the British king's right as an Elector of the Holy Roman Empire.
It is sometimes claimed that the British King George III renounced his claim to be King of France by the treaty. However, this a historical myth, and it is also falsely attributed to some of the treaties of the French Revolutionary Wars. Such a renunciation is nowhere in the text of the treaty, and in fact George III continued to be styled "King of France" and used the fleurs-de-lis as part of his arms until 1801 when Britain and Ireland united. It was dropped then because it was simply regarded as anachronistic, not because of French pressure.
In the treaty with France, Britain relinquished the restrictions that had been imposed on the French naval port of Dunkirk, but aside from minor adjustments in the West Indies and Africa, the territorial dispositions made in the Treaty of Paris of 1763 were generally continued.
The Treaty of Paris of May 30, 1814, was concluded between France on the one hand and Great Britain, Russia, Austria, and Prussia on the other after the first abdication of Napoleon I.
The Treaty of Paris in 1898 and the Universal Declaration...
Introduction; Treaty of Paris, 1763;Treaty of Paris, 1783; Treaties of Paris, 1814 and 1815; Treaty of Paris, 1856; Treaty of Paris, 1898
The Treaty of Paris, signed on May 30, 1814 by France and its seven allied adversaries—Britain, Russia, Austria, Prussia, Sweden, Portugal, and Spain—was a lenient one for the defeated nation.
The Treaty of 1814, except for provisions not revoked by the Treaty of 1815, was to continue as binding, as were the territorial arrangements of the Congress of Vienna.
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