Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle (1668)
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The first Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen) produced the treaty of the May 2nd 1668, which put an end to the War of Devolution, was the outcome of that of St Germain
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signed on the isth of April by France and the representatives of the powers of the Triple Alliance. The treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle left to France all the conquests made in Flanders during the campaign of 1667, with all their "appartenances, dependances et annexes," a vague provision of which, after the peace of Nijmegen (1680), Louis XIV took advantage to occupy a number of villages and towns adjudged to him by his Chambres de reunion as dependencies of the cities and territories acquired in 1668. On the other hand, France restored to Spain the cities of Cambrai, Aire and Saint-Omer, as well as the province of Franche Comte. The treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle was placed under the guarantee of Great Britain, Sweden and Holland, by a convention signed at the Hague on the May 7th 1669, to which Spain acceded.
See Jean du Mont, baron de Carlscroon, Corps universel diplomatique (Amst., 1726-1731).