I am currently taking APUSH, and our class is going over the French and Indian War and the American Revolution. Both of these conflicts were ended with a treaty of Paris, which I found a bit odd. So I asked my good friend, Señor Google, how many treaties of Paris there were. According to his 2nd cousin, twice removed, (wikipedia) there have been at least 30 treaties of Paris in France's history, not including various accords, charters, and conventions.
What's the deal with that? Were the French known mediators? Were they called something else in their time, and then renamed in the modern era? Are the French incredibly uncreative in their naming? Is there a conspiracy by the French people to take over the world through sheer number of treaties? Is this all one big coincidence? Am I overthinking this?
Please, r/AskHistorians, sate my curiosity!
There were so many treaties of Paris because of many reasons. First, they were one of the great powers of the World, they were allways involved in major wars. Second, Paris was the cultural capital of Europe, very rennounced even then. They were kind of neutral in so many ocassions, and Paris was the most reasonable place to make a Pace treaty. They were good mediators as well.