Treaty of Versailles (1757)

Financial subsidies paid from France to Austria were continued, which confirmed a British fear about the depth of the alliance.

[2] That particularly alarmed Great Britain, which had long sought to prevent the French moving into the Low Countries, but the treaty brought to an end the barrier which had existed for forty years.

The French intended to put a Bourbon monarch from the Spanish branch of the dynasty, Duke Philip of Parma, on the throne of a new puppet state in the Southern Netherlands.

In addition it was agreed that the towns of Chimay, Ostend, Beaumont, Nieuport, Ypres, Furnes and Mons would all be ceded directly to France.

The terms were largely renounced by the subsequent Third Treaty of Versailles, as France and Austria were not able to achieve the swift victory over Prussia that they had envisaged, despite the assistance of Russia, Sweden and Saxony.

The treaty takes its name from the Palace of Versailles outside Paris .
The Prussian victory at the Battle of Rossbach was a major blow to the Allies and led to the replacement of the Treaty the following year.