Shown here is the meeting at Versailles between Otto von Bismarck (left) and Adolphe Thiers (seated far right) at the Palace of Versailles France. Bismarck is dictating the terms of peace to Thiers in February of 1871. Bismarck had ordered the city of Paris to be bombarded with large-caliber Krupp siege guns. This prompted the city's surrender on 28 January 1871. Secret armistice discussions began on January 23, 1871 and continued at Versailles. The Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War, often referred to in France as the War of 1870, was a conflict between the Second French Empire and the

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Shown here is the meeting at Versailles between Otto von Bismarck (left) and Adolphe Thiers (seated far right) at the Palace of Versailles France. Bismarck is dictating the terms of peace to Thiers in February of 1871. Bismarck had ordered the city of Paris to be bombarded with large-caliber Krupp siege guns. This prompted the city's surrender on 28 January 1871. Secret armistice discussions began on January 23, 1871 and continued at Versailles. The Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War, often referred to in France as the War of 1870, was a conflict between the Second French Empire and the North German Confederation led by the Kingdom of Prussia.

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