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Franco-Prussian War indemnity

five billion francs

also: пять миллиардов

The five-billion-franc war indemnity France was forced to pay the newly unified German Empire after its 1870-71 defeat -- the standing grievance behind decades of French revanchism that Grisha cites as ready cause for a new war with Germany.

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