The Siege of Paris 1870-71 (In Our Time)
1870 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian war and the social unrest that followed, as the French capital was cut off from the rest of the country and food was scarce. When the French government surrendered Paris to the Prussians, power gravitated to the National Guard in the city and to radical socialists, and a Commune es
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Around 1870
- Meiji Restoration (1868)
- German unification (1871)
- Pasteur develops germ theory of disease (1861)
- American Civil War (1861)
- Albert Einstein (1879)
- Joseph Stalin (1878)
- Vladimir Lenin (1870)
- Presidency of Abraham Lincoln (1861)
- Founding of the German Empire (1871)
- Wars of German Unification (1864)