Léon Gambetta leaves office in March upon…
March 1871 CE
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.