Talk:Government of National Defense

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The Parisians in the National Guard actually performed decently in the last attempt at a breakout, considering they were never trained properly and armed with obsolete muskets. Either way, the best troops in France would have had a very tough time succeeding in that task. When I get a break from work I will try to make a page just about that last battle before hopes of a breakout completely vanished. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.178.15.7 (talk) 04:47, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Elections of February, 8th, 1871

These elections were held in the German occupied territories too. Otherwise there were no members elected in Upper Rhine and Lower Rhine Départements and the whole Northeastern France. But, as Mr Thiers said in front of the new-elected assembly in Bordeaux on March, 10th: "No country had been ever asked in a more sincere way and it has never given a more sincere answer than on that occassion. Partly the territory has been occupied but the enemy didn't take a hand into that election. Some préfets (head of département's administration) would have likely done so but they hadn't time enough for this. So it [the elections] has gone without interference due to strangers' lack of interest and administration's lack of time."

I found these sentences (translated into German) in Wilhelm Oncken: Das Zeitalter des Kaisers Wilhelm. (Einzelausgabe: ISBN 978-3-8460-3638-9) in: Oncken, W. (Hg.): Allgemeine Geschichte in Einzeldarstellungen, Vierte Hauptabteilung, Sechster Teil, 2. Band, Berlin: Grote, 1890 und öfter, S. 341.

best regards --176.0.108.84 (talk) 11:49, 7 June 2015 (UTC)