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The Plombières Agreement of 1858 was a secret verbal agreement concluded at Plombières-les-Bains between the chief minister of Piedmont-Sardinia, Count Cavour, and the French Emperor, Napoleon III. Some older English language sources refer to it as the Treaty of Plombières, but most avoid identifying it as a "treaty".
For evidential reasons there have been disputes on the details of what was agreed, but as events unfolded over the next couple of years it was apparent that the agreement had opened the way for the Franco-Pedmontese military alliance, concluded on 28 January 1859, and for the subsequent the war that led to Italian unification.
The Plombières Agreement was an agreement concerning a future war in which France and Piedmont would ally themselves against Austria in order to remove and exclude Austrian authority and influence from the Italian peninsular. In its place Italy, which a previous Austrian chancellor had reportedly dismissed on various occasions as a "[mere] geographical expression",[1] would be divided into two spheres of influence to be dominated respectively by Piedmont and France. As events turned out the war proceeded as agreed at Plombières, but its geo-political aftermath did not.