... France also got faced with having to pay for war damages, reparations, of £200,000,000. This would be paid in annual instalments. The German Army would remain in France until there payments were paid. To top this off they were punished b the Treaty of Frankfurt and lost territory of Alsace-Lorraine, an industrially rich area. Also Bismarck believed it was the most likely place France would attack Germany. France's reaction to paying war reparations was different to that of the Germanys. When Germany was faced with there reparations in the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 and lost territory they didn't want to pay it so ended up not paying all of them off. Whereas France's reaction to their treaty was that they saw it as a National honour and they paid it within a matter of two years, well before the deadline. France's recovery after 1871 was dramatic. They embarked on ...

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