Ka cika wannan magana: Ƙari ga matsalolin da Napoleon na Uku ya fuskanta wajen samun abokan haɗin kai, Bismarck ya yi aiki tuƙuru don ya ware Faransa daga sauran ƙasashen Turai. Tun daga 1863, Bismarck ya yi ƙoƙari don noma Rasha, yin hadin kai, a tsakanin sauran abubuwa, wajen magance Poland
'yan tawaye. Wannan muhimmin mataki ya sami Bismarck tsaka-tsakin Rasha idan Prussia ta shiga yaki, kuma hakan ya hana Austriya shiga tsakani da Faransa kamar yadda Austria ta goyi bayan 'yan Poland. Lokacin da Alexander II ya zo Faransa a ziyarar hukuma a 1867, ya kasance a ƙarshen karɓar ƙoƙarin kisan gilla da ɗan Poland Anton Berezovski ya yi yayin hawa tare da Napoleon III da Empress Eugenie. Tsar Alexander ya ji haushi sosai cewa ba kawai kotunan Faransa sun yanke wa Berezovski hukuncin ɗaurin kurkuku maimakon mutuwa ba har ma da 'yan jaridar Faransa sun goyi bayan Pole maimakon Alexander. Wannan kwarewar ta rushe ra'ayinsa game da Faransa har abada kuma ya ga dalilin da ya sa mahaifinsa ya raina Faransanci a cikin abin da ya faru da ziyararsa.