The Treaty of Frankfurt takes Alsace-Lorraine
1871 · Event
The peace with France exacts five billion francs and — against Bismarck's own instincts — the provinces of Alsace and Lorraine. The annexation makes Franco-German enmity permanent: French politics organises itself around revanche, and the two empires' next meeting, in 1914, grows directly from this clause.
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