Jules Favre
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Jules Claude Gabriel Favre was a French statesman and lawyer. After the establishment of the Third Republic in September 1870, he became one of the leaders of the Moderate Republicans in the National
Portrait by Pierre Petit, 1860s
Jules Favre in 1865, photo taken by Nadar.
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Treaty of Frankfurt (1871)
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The Treaty of Frankfurt was a peace treaty signed in Frankfurt on 10 May 1871 by the German Empire and the French Third Republic, at the end of the Franco-Prussian War.
Jules Favre
…was not included in the armistice, and it was thus obliged to retreat to neutral territory. He showed no diplomatic skill in the negotiations for the Treaty of Frankfurt, and it was Bismarck who imposed all the conditions. He withdrew from the ministry, discredited, on 2 August 1871, but remained in the Chamber of…
Frieden von Frankfurt am Main
Watched by Bismarck, Jules Favre, French Minister of Foreign Affairs, puts his seal on the Treaty of Frankfurt.