Franco-Russian Agreement

Date: March 10, 1917 • Location: Paris, France

Russia and France reached an agreement' to support one another's territorial ambitions for Europe in the aftermath of World War I.

The 1917 Franco-Russian agreement was a secret treaty between the French Third Republic and the Russian Empire to support one another's territorial claims in settlement following the First World War. Under the agreement France recognised Russia's claim to any portions of Poland that she could occupy, and Russia supported France's claim for the return of Alsace–Lorraine from Germany and right to occupy other parts of Germany in the post-war period.