Treaty of Frankfurt
May 10, 1871
France paid five billion francs in war indemnity and ceded Alsace and most of Lorraine to the new German Empire. Strasbourg became Strassburg. The statue of Strasbourg in the Place de la Concorde was draped in mourning crape and stayed that way until 1918. France now had a grievance designed to last a generation, and did.
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Era
Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.