# Armistice ends major Franco-Prussian fighting (1871)

URL: https://history-france.com/timeline/1871-armistice-ends-major-franco-prussian-fighting
Location: France

The new republican government accepted an armistice pending peace negotiations. Within the broader Third Republic period, The Third Republic survived war, the Commune, constitutional crises and fierce ideological conflict. It expanded mass schooling and empire, faced the Dreyfus Affair, fought World War I and entered the troubled interwar era. At this point in the timeline, the relevant governing authority is Government of National Defence (Collective executive). Armistice ends major Franco-Prussian fighting mattered because it reshaped France’s external relationships, territory or place in wider international systems. The event is positioned here so visitors can read it alongside changes in government, warfare, society, religion, culture and France’s wider international setting.

## Why it matters
Armistice ends major Franco-Prussian fighting mattered because it reshaped France’s external relationships, territory or place in wider international systems.

Ruler at the time: [Adolphe Thiers](https://history-france.com/rulers/adolphe-thiers)

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