WI: France loses the War of the Second Coalition?

So, let's say that Russia doesn't pull out of the war, and that France is defeated before Napoleon can pull off his coup. What is the peace treaty likely to be? Status quo antebellum? A reversal of the Treaty of Campo Formio? A Bourbon Restoration in France?
 
So, let's say that Russia doesn't pull out of the war, and that France is defeated before Napoleon can pull off his coup. What is the peace treaty likely to be? Status quo antebellum? A reversal of the Treaty of Campo Formio? A Bourbon Restoration in France?

As I understand it, the Russians withdrew because their defeat in the Second Battle of Zurich made their position impossible - forcing Suvorov to retreat over the Panixer Pass, which saved most of the men of the army, but destroyed the Russian army as a combat-ready formation.

So it looks like the PoD would have to be at the Second Battle of Zurich, say for example Koraskov isn't put in command and instead a Russian general who will take the advice of Archduke Charles leads the Russian's Northern force (I have no idea who that might be though). That would mean that Suvorov could link up with the Norther army, possibly allowing the coalition to force the French out of Switzerland (which could be interesting - might Switzerland be remade in a form more agreeable to the Hapsburgs and reintegrated into Germany?)

But would the French agree to a truce after they'd lost the battle for Halvetia? Or would they agree to terms that the Second Coalition would find to their liking? I don't know the answer to either. Certainly, the Austrians and the Russians winning the fighting in the Alps doesn't decisively defeat France, so the French may decide to fight on, and perhaps even go on to win at a later point.

Does anyone know what the Second Coalition's goals were?

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