Word: franco-prussian
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...Heidelberg, famed University town, in the year 1871-the year that saw the end of the Franco-Prussian War-that a baby was born to the wife of Tailor Ebert. That baby was christened Friedrich and was known as "Fritz...
...Chief Executive is a combination of President and Premier?virtually a dictator. After the Franco-Prussian War in 1871, M. Thiers, in similar circumstances, temporarily assumed the office of Chief of Executive Power in France...
Jean Adrien Antoine Jules Jusserand is 69 years of age and was born at Lyon, the city of which Premier Herriot is mayor. It was his ambition to fight in the Franco-Prussian war, but being only 15 years of age he was unable to enlist. Struck by his ignorance of foreign countries he decided at that time to become a diplomat...
With a book in one hand and a sword in the other, Anatole France served through the Franco-Prussian War of 1870; tried, aged 70, to enlist during the Great War. After the War, he was for a while a champion of communism, but later changed his mind...
...details being given of the force whereby it is backed?" he asked heatedly. The former Premier complained that Mr. MacDonald's policy was nebulous; he twitted the Labor Government with failure to protest against French intentions to make the Ruhr occupation permanent; he gave warning that the Franco-Prussian industrial agreements were operating to the detriment of Great Britain...