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Line 18: In the [[government of National Defence]] he became vice-president under [[Louis Jules Trochu\|General Trochu]], and minister of foreign affairs, with the onerous task of negotiating peace with victorious Germany. He proved to be less adroit as a diplomat than he had been as an orator, and committed several irreparable blunders. His famous statement on 6 September 1870, that he "would not yield to Germany an inch of territory nor a single stone of the fortresses" was a piece of oratory which [[Otto von Bismarck\|Bismarck]] met on the 19th by his declaration to Favre that [[Alsace]] and [[Lorraine (province)\|Lorraine]] had to be ceded as a condition of peace. He arranged for the [[Armistice of Versailles\|armistice]] of 28 January 1871]] without knowing the situation of the armies, and without consulting the government at [[Bordeaux]]. By a grave oversight, he neglected to inform [[Léon Gambetta]] that the [[Armée de l'Est\|Army of the East]] (80,000 men) was not included in the armistice, and it was thus obliged to retreat to neutral territory. He showed no diplomatic skill in the negotiations for the [[Treaty of Frankfurt (1871)\|Treaty of Frankfurt]], and it was Bismarck who imposed all the conditions. He withdrew from the ministry, discredited, on 2 August 1871, but remained in the Chamber of Deputies. Elected [[Senate of France\|Senator]] on 30 January 1876, he continued to support the government of the republic against the reactionary opposition until his death on 20 January 1880. ==Post-war scandal==

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