A writer in the Revue des Deux Mondes estimates at ten milliards of francs the total cost to France of the war with Germany.

Discover how Prussia decisively defeated France in the Franco-Prussian War, a short but pivotal conflict that reshaped European power and led to the unification of Germany. This concise breakdown ...

In “Bismarck’s War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe,” Ms. Chrastil, a historian at Xavier University, deftly uses Dietrich’s diary and other sources to enliven her ...

In the 1870s, Otto von Bismarck—worried that France would reconstitute itself as a monarchy after its defeat in the Franco-Prussian War—“engineered crises” to “spook French elites and ...

Germany plans to buy an additional 15 US-made F35s to add to their fleet amid tensions between them and France regarding the ...

World War I “colored everything that came before and shadowed everything that followed.” The assassinations, which Austria-Hungary blamed on Serbia, led to an ultimatum being delivered to the Serbian ...

As the Franco-Prussian War commenced, Monet decamped to London, where he sat out the hostilities, palette in hand. Upon his return to France, he and his colleagues worked outdoors, often setting ...

Twenty years later, the Franco-Prussian War dominated the pages of The Irish Times as German forces encircled Paris and eventually starved it into submission in January 1871.

During the Franco-Prussian War and the ensuing civil war, many artists fled to other French cities or London. However, artists Edouard Manet, Berthe Morisot, Edgar Degas, and a few others stayed ...

During the years between the Franco-Prussian War and World War I, the German General Staff concocted a war plan for its next conflict.