WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -By the treaty of 24 March 1860, it was agreed between France and Sardinia that Savoy and Nice, after the population had been consulted, should be ceded to France, and that Tuscany and the Romagna should also, after a similar consultation, be annexed to Sardinia.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Treaty of Turin was signed on March 24, 1860, between Napoleon III, Emperor of France, and Victor-Emmanuel II, sovereign of the Kingdom of Sardinia. The result of the treaty was to transfer the city of Nice and the Region of Savoie from the Kingdom of Sardinia to France.

Detailed explanation-3: -Savoy (along with Nice) became part of France permanently in 1860 as the price for the French emperor Napoleon III’s consent to the formation of a state covering north-central Italy under the rule of the house of Savoy.

Detailed explanation-4: -Answer: Savoy, along with the county of Nice, was finally annexed to France by a plebiscite, under the Second French Empire in 1860, as part of a political agreement (Treaty of Turin) brokered between the French emperor Napoleon III and King Victor Emmanuel II of the Kingdom of Sardinia.

Detailed explanation-5: -During the Italian unification, in 1860, the House of Savoy allowed the Second French Empire to annex Nice from the Kingdom of Sardinia in exchange for French support of its quest to unify Italy.