Cobentzel followed him, and made submissions which induced him once more to resume his negotiations.
The result was the treaty of Campo-Formio, so-called from the village at which it was signed, on the 3d of October, 1797.

By this act the emperor yielded to France, Flanders and the boundary of the Rhine, including the great fortress of Mentz.

The various new republics of Lombardy were united and recognised under the general name of the Cisalpine Republic.
To indemnify Austria for the loss of those territories, the fall of Venice afforded new means--of which Napoleon did not hesitate to propose, nor Austria to accept the use.

The French general had indeed conquered Venice, but he had entered into a treaty subsequently, and recognised a wholly new government in place of the oligarchy.

The emperor, on the other hand, well knew that the Doge and Senate had incurred ruin by rising to his own aid.