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.
Locations
People
Groups
- Prussia, Kingdom of
- Württemberg, Kingdom of
- Baden, Grand Duchy of
- Bavaria, Kingdom of
- German Confederation, North
- Paris Commune
- German Empire (“Second Reich”)
- France (French republic); the Third Republic
