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Treaty of Lunéville
Also known as Treaty of Luneville
1801 Treaty during the War of the Second Coalition
Key facts
- Type
- Peace treaty
- Context
- War of the Second Coalition
- Signed
- 9 February 1801 ( 1801-02-09 )
- Location
- Lunéville , France
- Signatories
- First French Republic Holy Roman Empire
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- Image
- Treaty of Lunéville commemoration.jpg
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- subject named as
- Friede von Lunéville
- Commons category
- Treaty of Lunéville
- point in time
- 1801-02-09
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The Treaty of Lunéville (or Peace of Lunéville) was signed in the Treaty House of Lunéville on 9 February 1801. The signatory parties were the French Republic and Emperor Francis II, who signed on his own behalf as ruler of the hereditary domains of the House of Austria and on behalf of the Holy Roman Empire. The signatories were Joseph Bonaparte and Count Ludwig von Cobenzl, the Austrian foreign minister. The treaty formally ended Austrian and Imperial participation in the War of the Second Coalition and the French Revolutionary Wars, as well as the Imperial Kingdom of Italy.
The Austrian army had been defeated by Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Marengo on 14 June 1800 and then by Jean Victor Moreau at the Battle of Hohenlinden on 3 December. Forced to sue for peace, the Austrians signed the Treaty of Lunéville, which largely confirmed the Treaty of Campo Formio (17 October 1797), which itself had confirmed the Peace of Leoben (18 April 1797). The United Kingdom was the sole nation still at war with France for another year.