Martin Antonenko
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The French ask for armistice!
After several months of siege by German troops ...
... food shortage in Paris forces the French government to give in during the Franco-German War!
The Parisians are already starting to eat rats!
And to the French government under Adolphe Thiers, a hunger riot of the angry population in the French capital (which would inevitably be directed against its own government!) Seems far worse than a German occupation!
On January 28, 1871, Thiers and his foreign minister Jules Favre meet Otto von Bismarck in Versailles and seek an armistice.
Thiers is absolutely overwhelmed by the situation and is about to collapse (guaranteed!), as the next picture shows ...:
So Bismarck and Favre continue to negotiate alone ...
... and quickly come to an agreement ...:
The immediate disarmament of the Paris garrison and the temporary occupation of part of Paris until the final peace agreement is agreed upon.
The occupation troops come from the northwest through the Porte de Maillot, march up the avenue de la Grande Armée of all places (where I lived for a longer time in house number 22, 5th floor rear building ...), directly through the Arc de Triomphe onto the Boulevard Champs Elysèes ...:
Chief of Staff Hellmuth von Moltke ...
.... had wanted to go further: He wanted the capture and transport of all French troops standing near and in Paris (a total of around 250,000 men) to Germany!
But Bismarck, to whom the French were absolutely tired of war, prevailed.
Incidentally, the ceasefire negotiated between Favre and Bismarck expressly does not apply to the Doubs, Côte-d’Or and Jura departments!
Because there are still undefeated 87.000 troops (with 12.000 Horsenen) of the French southern army under General Charles-Denis Bourbaki...:
But Bismarck correctly assessed the situation, the French no longer want to fight!
General Bourbaki will lead his army on Swiss territory at the beginning of February, have it disarmed there - and then attempt suicide without success.
The peace agreement will cost France a lot of money (five billion gold francs!) And that will cost the departments of Alsace and Lorraine ...:
A short triumph for the Germans - the seeds for the First World War are thus laid!
Because from now on, the motto coined by MP Lèon Gambetta applies to patriotically minded French as well as to the entire army: "N'en parlez jamais, souvenez-vous-en toujours!" ("Never talk about it, always think about it!")
After several months of siege by German troops ...
... food shortage in Paris forces the French government to give in during the Franco-German War!
The Parisians are already starting to eat rats!
And to the French government under Adolphe Thiers, a hunger riot of the angry population in the French capital (which would inevitably be directed against its own government!) Seems far worse than a German occupation!
On January 28, 1871, Thiers and his foreign minister Jules Favre meet Otto von Bismarck in Versailles and seek an armistice.
Thiers is absolutely overwhelmed by the situation and is about to collapse (guaranteed!), as the next picture shows ...:
So Bismarck and Favre continue to negotiate alone ...
... and quickly come to an agreement ...:
The immediate disarmament of the Paris garrison and the temporary occupation of part of Paris until the final peace agreement is agreed upon.
The occupation troops come from the northwest through the Porte de Maillot, march up the avenue de la Grande Armée of all places (where I lived for a longer time in house number 22, 5th floor rear building ...), directly through the Arc de Triomphe onto the Boulevard Champs Elysèes ...:
Chief of Staff Hellmuth von Moltke ...
.... had wanted to go further: He wanted the capture and transport of all French troops standing near and in Paris (a total of around 250,000 men) to Germany!
But Bismarck, to whom the French were absolutely tired of war, prevailed.
Incidentally, the ceasefire negotiated between Favre and Bismarck expressly does not apply to the Doubs, Côte-d’Or and Jura departments!
Because there are still undefeated 87.000 troops (with 12.000 Horsenen) of the French southern army under General Charles-Denis Bourbaki...:
But Bismarck correctly assessed the situation, the French no longer want to fight!
General Bourbaki will lead his army on Swiss territory at the beginning of February, have it disarmed there - and then attempt suicide without success.
The peace agreement will cost France a lot of money (five billion gold francs!) And that will cost the departments of Alsace and Lorraine ...:
A short triumph for the Germans - the seeds for the First World War are thus laid!
Because from now on, the motto coined by MP Lèon Gambetta applies to patriotically minded French as well as to the entire army: "N'en parlez jamais, souvenez-vous-en toujours!" ("Never talk about it, always think about it!")
