<P> Spain ceded Florida to Britain . France had already secretly given Louisiana to Spain in the Treaty of Fontainebleau (1762). In addition, while France regained its factories in India, France recognized British clients as the rulers of key Indian native states, and pledged not to send troops to Bengal . Britain agreed to demolish its fortifications in British Honduras (now Belize), but retained a logwood - cutting colony there . Britain confirmed the right of its new subjects to practise Catholicism . </P> <P> France ceded all of its territory in mainland North America, but retained fishing rights off Newfoundland and the two small islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, where its fishermen could dry their catch . In turn France gained the return of its sugar colony, Guadeloupe, which it considered more valuable than Canada . Voltaire had notoriously dismissed Canada as "Quelques arpents de neige", "A few acres of snow". </P> <P> The Treaty of Paris is frequently noted as the point at which France gave Louisiana to Spain . The transfer, however, occurred with the Treaty of Fontainebleau (1762) but was not publicly announced until 1764 . The Treaty of Paris was to give Britain the east side of the Mississippi (including Baton Rouge, Louisiana, which was to be part of the British territory of West Florida). New Orleans on the east side remained in French hands (albeit temporarily). The Mississippi River corridor in what is modern day Louisiana was to be reunited following the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and the Adams--Onís Treaty in 1819 . </P> <P> The 1763 treaty states in Article VII: </P>

Which country gained the louisiana territory in the treaty of paris of 1763