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  1. 1870-71. The Prussian chancellor Bismarck put
  2. forward a German candidate for the vacant
  3. Spanish throne with the deliberate, and
  4. successful, intention of provoking the French
  5. emperor Napoleon III into declaring war. The
  6. Prussians defeated the French at Sedan, then
  7. besieged Paris. The Treaty of Frankfurt May
  8. 1871 gave Alsace, Lorraine, and a large
  9. French indemnity to Prussia. The war
  10. established Prussia, at the head of a newly
  11. established German empire, as Europe's
  12. leading power.
  13.