Excerpt from Bismarck's Letters to His Wife From the Seat of War, 1870-1871 The Germans then took the ofiensive, and Bismarck, with the headquarters staff, at length passed from German territory into French, until, after the siege of Metz and the capitulation of Sedan, the invaders, on Sep tember 19, found themselves before Paris. The last letter in the main part of the little volume is dated at Versailles, March 5, 1871, two days after the evacuation of Paris by the Germans and a fortnight before the call ing together of the first German Federal Parliament. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.