2334739 Gambetta, on the steps of the Hotel de Ville in Paris, proclaiming the Republic after the capture of Napoleon III at the battle of Sedan in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 (engraving) by Unknown Artist, (19th century); (add.info.: Gambetta, on the steps of the Hotel de Ville in Paris, has proclaimed the Republic after the capture of Napoleon III at the battle of Sedan in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. This proclamation will create the "Government of National Defense" (or "provisional Government of 1870"). Gambetta, standing up the steps of the City Hall, speech constituted a crowd of civilians and some soldier, or emerge tricolor flags. Behind him, on the colonnade, three inscriptions "Trochu Gambetta", "French Republic" and "Vice Rochfort Trochu.).