Venice could, in fact, indemnify the Hapsburgs for the further cessions which France exacted from them elsewhere; and in the process Bonaparte would free himself from the blame which attached to his hasty signature of the preliminaries at Leoben.
"The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2)"
John Holland Rose
Louisiana was yielded up to Spain in 1763, in order to reconcile the Court of Madrid to cessions required by that same Peace of Paris.
"The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2)"
John Holland Rose
The chief change resolved on was as follows: Instead of the cessions of territory being immediate and absolute, as proposed by Napoleon, they were not to take effect before the general peace.
"The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2)"
John Holland Rose