Background

1871 Year of France fought against Prussia and was defeated. Heads of national government, Adolphe Thiers, had been negotiating details of a peace with Prussia. After doing all this, he was confronted with the problem of returning control takeover of Paris, and Paris convinced that the war with Prussia was over and the dissolution of the national army. Thiers had only 12,000 troops after a cease-fire against the thousands of national forces. Heading out the largest city has moved from Bordeaux, where a meeting place for the first time held for the cleaning of Prussia, to Versailles, near Paris.

Prussian people still occupying northern France, as the payment of compensation agreed to pay France a peaceful conditions. To be able to pay the first installment of the settlement, and for the safety of evacuation from northern France by the Prussian army, the French government to raise loans. Loans can only be increased by increasing public confidence in the new government. In the government of Thiers, the problem is the improvement of trust. All must be started with re pemapanan, the reopening of shops, restoration of business systems, and life returned to normal. With all that has been mentioned above, since Paris has become the capital, then Paris should be taken over under the control of the National Government.

Paris being can not accept and oppose Prussian victory. This means that Paris was not satisfied with the delivery of government into the hands of Prussia. Kemarahan patriotik Perancis mengalahkan ketidakmampuan kemarahan pemerintahan baru di Versailles. Paris remains the national army on alert, ready to reject all kinds of income by force from the Prussian to Paris. The guns used by the siege of Paris had been taken to various places in Paris. Finally, all the cannon that was brought to the various regions, so that becomes a critical issue. As Thiers after that, "... the business people will constantly be kept repeating that financial reform will never walk again until all the bad things stopped (finished) and they have guns taken away