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The negotiations had guaranteed national elections to create a new French government, and on February 8 1871 French citizens (except those in the occupied Prussian territories) voted for a new government. The elections returned an overwhelming number of conservative, middle-class, rural Deputies, who set up a new seat of government at the [[palace of Versailles]]. The new National Assembly elected [[Adolphe Thiers]] as [[Chief Executive]] of the new government, and Thiers took over the position of [[President of France]] from General Trochu on February 13. Eager to pay reparations and thus oblige the Prussians to leave France, the new government passed a variety of financial laws which deeply angered Parisians, leading to the outbreak of revolutions in French cities, and the ultimate creation of the [[Paris Commune]].

 

 

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