In return for these cessions, along with territory in India, Africa, and the Mediterranean island of Minorca, France would regain the Caribbean islands that British forces had captured during the war. The British Government also promised to allow French Canadians to freely practice Catholicism and provided for French fishing rights off Newfoundland.
Choiseul preferred to keep the small Caribbean islands of Martinique, Guadeloupe, and St. Lucia rather than hold on to the vast territory stretching from Louisiana to Canada. In contrast, Canada had been a drain on the French treasury.
The loss of Canada, while lamentable to French officials, made sense from a mercantile perspective. The diplomats completed their negotiations and signed the preliminary Treaty of Paris on November 3, Spanish and French negotiators also signed the Treaty of San Ildefonso at the same time, which confirmed the cession of French Louisiana to Spain.
However, the treaty contained enough concessions to war hawks that the British Parliament ratified the Treaty of Paris by a majority of to 64, and the treaty went into effect on February 10, I brought something to show you. I brought your sister, Mira. When I brought somebody home named joanne. I brought Clara a few things.
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