The Treaty of Baden, signed 7 September 1714 in

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, made peace between

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and the

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. Together with the Treaties of

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and Rastatt, it was one in a series of agreements ending the 1701 to 1713

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Background

The treaty was the first international agreement signed in the Swiss Confederacy. On the margins of the conference, the signatories also secretly agreed to a

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union to intervene in favour of the Catholic cantons that had been defeated at the Second War of Villmergen two years earlier by the Peace of Aarau ending Catholic hegemony in the Confederacy.

Terms

* France retained

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and

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but returned the east bank of the Rhine River (the Breisgau) to Austria. * The prince-electors of

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and

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were reinstated in their territories and their positions. * Emperor Charles VI kept the title of

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and the Spanish heritage, which was actually of no value since in Spain, all power remained with King Philip V of Spain.

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