Treaty of Amiens
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The Treaty of Amiens (French: paix d'Amiens) temporarily ended hostilities between France and the United Kingdom during the French Revolutionary Wars. It was signed in the city of Amiens on 25 March 1802 (4 Germinal X in the French Republican Calendar) by Joseph Bonaparte and Marquess Cornwallis as a "Definitive Treaty of Peace". The consequent peace lasted for only one year (18 May 1803) and was the only period of general peace in Europe between 1793 and 1814.
Under the treaty, Britain recognised the French Republic. Together with the Treaty of Lunéville (1801), the Treaty of Amiens marked the end of the Second Coalition, which had waged war against Revolutionary France since 1798.
Treaty Of Amiens Media
Britain's foreign secretary Robert Jenkinson, Lord Hawkesbury, 1796 portrait by Thomas Lawrence
Charles Cornwallis, portraited by Thomas Gainsborough c. 1783
Joseph Bonaparte, portraited by Luigi Toro
Page of the Treaty with the eight seals and the eight signatures of the signatories
James Gillray, The first Kiss this Ten Years!—or—the meeting of Britannia & Citizen François (1803)
Stone commemorating the 1802 treaty in Burley, Hampshire, England.
