A Treaty of Paris was signed on 24 August 1801 between

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and Elector Maximilian IV Joseph of Bavaria, during the

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. France obtained the Palatinate territories, at time a Bavarian dependency, on the Left Bank of the Rhine, notably the

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and the County Palatine of Zweibrücken. However, Napoleon was not interested in humiliating the

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s, a secondary opponent that could become a possible ally against the main enemy

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. More, since the beginning of his reign the Bavarian elector had searched favorable exchanges for his divided hereditary domains, so Napoleon offered an indemnity in Germany to Bavaria in event of a French friendliness, and so it happened.

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