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Léon Gambetta leaves office in March upon …

Years: 1871 - 1871
March

Léon Gambetta leaves office in March upon France’s acceptance of Germany’s humiliating peace terms.

Parisians, furious at the national government’s capitulation, react to the government’s seemingly anti-Parisian acts by erecting an independent revolutionary municipal government, the Paris Commune, and calling on other French cities to follow the Parisian example.