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In which year was the German Empire proclaimed at Versailles?
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- It follows the defeat of France in the war of 1870 to 1871.
- Eighteen seventy-one.
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1871
Why
1871, on 18 January, in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles, a location chosen to humiliate France and one that shaped French politics for the next two generations. The new empire was a federal monarchy under Prussia with universal male suffrage for the Reichstag and a government answerable to the emperor, not to it.
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