Franco-German armistice (1871)

The Franco-German armistice is concluded on January 26th, 1871 between the Gouvernement from National defense and the German imperial government. It puts an end to the engagements Franco-German Guerre of 1870.

After the failure strapping of the military left Buzenval the situation of Paris is desperate. The Government of National defense highly but vainly attacked by the Parisian ones at the time of the day of January 22nd, manages to remain in place and chooses to repress its opponents. The general Louis Trochu while remaining president of the government yields his post of military governor of Paris to the general Joseph Vinoy. This last farm the Parisian political clubs, prohibited 17 hostile newspapers with the government and makes stop republican chiefs like Charles Delescluze. Partisan to stop the engagements the government requests the armistice from the Germans.

January 23rd Jules Favre, Foreign Minister of the government of National defense, meets the German chancellor Bismarck in Versailles. The German requirements are important. France must proceed to elections for the training of an assembly having to ratify peace. The forts which surround the capital must be delivered to the winner. The soldiers defending Paris must be disarmed. The Germans can enter Paris (which has just undergone more than 4 months from seat. The city must pour a tribute of 20 franc million. The armistice is planned for one three weeks duration, during which the preliminaries of peace will be negotiated.

Jules Favre obtains some concessions. The equivalent of a military division is authorized to maintain the order. The National guard is not disarmed. The entry of the Germans in the capital is pushed back at at the beginning of March. On the other hand Jules Favre forgets the fate of the Armée with the East, which being included/understood in the armistice is not attacked by surprise, sudden heavy losses (nearly 15.000 men) and must take refuge in Switzerland where the soldiers are interned.

January 25th the French government gives its agreement on the conditions of the armistice, which is signed by Jules Favre on January 26th. January 28th the Official journal announces the armistice whose clauses are published the following day. Gambetta which proposes to continue the war against the opinion of Arago, of Garnier-Pages and Pelletan resigns of the government on February 6th. France which is in electoral campaign and prepares, on February 8th, to vote by plebiscite the in favor of peace. The armistice which finishes on February 19th is prolonged until February 26th, date on which the new government sign preliminaries of peace (prelude to the Traité of Frankfurt).

See also: Treaty of Frankfurt

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Sources

  • Bernard Christmas, Dictionary of the Commune, Flammarion, collection Fields, 1978.

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