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The Second Empire ended with the swift and catastrophic defeat of France in the Franco-Prussian war of 1870. The war was engineered by Bismarck with the idea that Germany would be united.This included the capture by the Prussians of the Napoleon III. Then the proclamation at Versailles of the German Empire, the loss to France of Alsace and Lorraine, and the proclamation of the Third Republic.

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