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the provisional government capitulates
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in the end of January of the year 1871,
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and the Prussian troops cavalry march down--
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I guess horses don't march,
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they trot--but they trot down the Champs-Elysées,
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and then the concierges from that area go and symbolically,
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and for real intent also,
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clean up the stones afterwards,
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and there's a huge indemnity that has to be paid off,
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and France will lose Alsace-Lorraine.
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So, France has this provisional government--
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you can read about this stuff,