Altogether in the war, the French lost 140,000 killed and roughly the same number wounded, the Germans 45,000 killed and twice as many wounded. The peace terms imposed by Bismarck aroused lasting resentments that were to find their eventual outlet in 1914. To add insult to injury, Bismarck organized the proclamation of the German Empire, extended to include the now helpless south German states as well, in the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles, on 18 January 1871.
