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THE CORRECT ANSWER: The Treaty of Ryswick

Signed in 1697, the Treaty of Ryswick ended the War of the League of Augsburg in Europe and officially sanctioned the cession by Spain of the western part of the island of Hispaniola to France. This new French colony, named Saint-Domingue, will quickly become the scene of unprecedented agricultural development in the Caribbean region.If sugar cane initially dominated the plains, the subsequent introduction of the coffee tree in the colonial heights during the eighteenth century radically transformed the local economy. French settlers intensively exploited the fertile and steep hills, perfectly suited to arabica.This stable legal framework for France thus laid the structural foundations for what would become, in just a few decades, the richest colony in the world and the world's leading supplier of coffee, before the revolution broke out.