monsieur le curé: the rever end father

23. celle de 1870: Napoléon 111, Emperor of the French, declared war on Prussia on July 19, 1870. The French armies were defeated at Wissembourg (Lorraine) on August 4; at Reichshoffen on August 6; and at Sedan on September 1, whereupon the Emperor surrendered and the French Empire was replaced by the

Republic. Paris was forced to capitulate on January 21, 1871, and France signed the disastrous treaty of Francfurt on May 10,