One hundred years ago Friday, the representatives of 27 nations gathered in the French foreign ministry to open the Paris Peace Conference. The date — January 18 — was pointedly chosen by French president Raymond Poincaré, for it was on this day in 1871 that the Germans had magnified France’s humiliating defeat in the Franco-Prussian War by unifying the confederated states of Germany not in Berlin, the new German capital, but in the château of Versailles, outside Paris.
The Challenges America Faced At Versailles In 1919 Are The Same The U.s. Faces Today
Geoffrey Wawro, Time
Fri, 01/18/2019 - 9:45am
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