English: A depiction of the talks hours after the French Army of Chalons had surrendered at Sedan with members of the French delegation pictured on the left, Supreme Commander Emmanuel Félix de Wimpffen (just standing up), General Auguste-Alexandre Ducrot, and other officers together with the delegation from the Prussian Coalition, Supreme Commander Helmuth von Moltke the Elder (standing at the table), Otto von Bismarck (sitting to Moltke’s left), General Field Marshall Leonhard Graf von Blumenthal, General Field Marshall Alexander August Wilhelm von Pape, commanders of the 3rd-and the Maas-Army, and other officers following the fall of Sedan during the Franco-Prussian War on 2 September 1870 at Donchery, France. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)