Corsica
Corsica is an island in the Mediterranean Sea and a French administrative region with Ajaccio as its capital.
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Corsica
Corsica
| Country name | France |
| History | With the beginning of the 18th century, the general discontent of the Corsican population about the continuous subjugation by foreign powers and the fragility of Genoa took the form of cultivating the idea of a free, united and independent Corsica. With the advent of the Duke of Choiseul as minister to King Louis XV, Paris's long-standing plan to get its hands on Corsica (already suggested in the French political-diplomatic treatises of the 17th century) accelerated. Having identified Corsica as a strategic asset of fundamental importance for the pursuit of French Mediterranean policy, Choiseul perfected and brought to fruition the design to take possession of it at the expense of the newly-born Corsican Republic and the Republic of Genoa itself, which wished to re-occupy the island. The first phase of the operation consisted in inducing Genoa to sign the Treaty of Compiègne in 1764, which stipulated the sending of French troops to Corsica to support the reconquest of the island by Genoa, which took on the burden of financing the entire operation. Corsica was essentially extorted from Genoa as a guarantee for debts not honoured, and in a sense, artificially created. General Paoli's response was general mobilisation to resist, arms at the ready, the demands of Paris. |
