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Alsace - Lorraine
Season 4 · Episode 9

Alsace - Lorraine

Bismarck's Wars - Blood and Iron

January 31, 202620m 50s

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With the new French Armies being defeated by the Germen Army in the early weeks of 1871. The majority of French public opinion wanted an end to the war. A cease fire deal was agreed with Bismarck. There was elections to a new French National Assembly held in occuiped and unoccuiped France, two thirds of those elected were conservative who wanted peace, Bismarck's price was high, France would pay Five Billlions Francs to Germany and hand over Alsace and Northern Lorraine but the price had to be paid