ABSTRACT
The first Peace of Paris was concluded on 30 May 1814, a mere two months after the end of the war and one month after the King had returned from exile in England and formed a government. The Prussian Government estimated the amounts which Napoleon had levied in Prussia alone between 1806 and 1812 at 1,228 million francs. Prussian diplomacy further that up to the very last the King of Saxony had not broken with Napoleon, although in the battle of Leipzig his troops went over to the Allies. At the beginning of March 1815, while the Congress was still sitting, the representatives of the assembled powers received the news that Napoleon had left Elba and landed in France. In the re-shaping of Europe there was one thing which all the powers had in common: a striving for peace after the apparently interminable sufferings and tribulations of a war lasting two decades.
