The Treaty of Valençay after the château

Château de Valençay

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 of the same name belonging to French foreign minister

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 Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, was drafted by Antoine René Mathurin and José Miguel de Carvajal y Manrique on behalf of the French Empire

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 and the Spanish Crown respectively. Intended as the preliminary to a full peace treaty

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 between France and Spain

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, the agreement provided for the restoration of Ferdinand VII of Spain, imprisoned at Valençay since 1808, to the Spanish throne usurped by Joseph Bonaparte

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.

Included in the terms was an armistice

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 which neither side, mistrusting the other's intentions, fully intended to respect. It appears Napoleon also extracted an oath from Ferdinand in a secret protocol which required the Spanish monarch to turn the Spanish Army

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 against the British

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 and Portuguese

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 should Wellington

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 continue to use Spain as a base of operations against France. In any event, the Cádiz Cortes

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 duly repudiated the treaty once Ferdinand reached the safety of Madrid

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. The Peninsular War

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 would drag on until Napoleon's final defeat in France by the powers of the Sixth Coalition.