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Updated: June 12, 2025
Proposals for an armistice with the detested Prussians entertained! Could Trochu's plan and Bazaine's plan be synonymous, then? The one word "Treachery!" was on every lip. When noon arrived the Place de l'Hotel-de-Ville was crowded with indignant people.
The lost ground being thus regained, and the French having been beaten on their right, it was not long before word came that Bazaine's army was falling back to Metz, leaving the entire battle-field in possession of the Germans.
Meantime, the French under Bazaine, to whom the Emperor was obliged to relinquish the supreme command the Opposition deputies particularly insisting on Bazaine's appointment in his stead were experiencing reverse after reverse.
As a military chief, his procrastination had given the Mexicans the time they needed fully to organize their defense; and had it not been for General Bazaine's energy and military capacity in urging and successfully carrying out the attack upon the fort of San Xavier, the siege of Puebla, already prolonged far beyond the limits of all likelihood, might have cost the French a still greater expenditure of time and human life.
Prince Kraft in his letters on cavalry says: "The battle of Mars-la-Tour, won by the bold employment of cavalry, made possible the blockade of Metz, and afterward the surrender of the whole of Bazaine's army. So it may be said, without exaggeration, that the charge of Bredow's six squadrons on that day was the turning point of the Franco-German campaign."
He was to learn, a couple of months later, how much he had been mistaken in his estimate of Bazaine's talents and rectitude of purpose; and, indeed, Bazaine's conduct toward Gambetta and the Republicans from first to last was the more inexplicable, as it was unquestionably owing to their agitation that he was placed in the high position which he had coveted.
Diplomacy conducted by chance signatures on casual photographs has a certain innocent simplicity, but is not in accordance with modern methods. Perhaps, however, the strangest thing in connection with this strange interview is Bazaine's final comment:
No cannon, standards, or prisoners were taken; but on that day the army of Prince Frederick Charles practically captured the whole of Bazaine's army. The statement may seem overdrawn, but it is none the less true.
In point of fact, although the Germans were not yet really marching on Paris for Bazaine's army had to be bottled up, and MacMahon's disposed of, before there could be an effective advance on the French capital it was imagined in the city and its outskirts that the enemy might arrive at any moment.
Reconnaissances and Sorties Casimir-Perier at Bagneux Some of the Paris Clubs Demonstrations at the Hotel-de-Ville The Cannon Craze The Fall of Metz foreshadowed Le Bourget taken by the French The Government's Policy of Concealment The Germans recapture Le Bourget Thiers, the Armistice, and Bazaine's Capitulation The Rising of October 31 The Peril and the Rescue of the Government Armistice and Peace Conditions The Great Question of Rations Personal Experiences respecting Food My father, in failing Health, decides to leave Paris.
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