A watan Satumba da Oktoba Adolphe Thiers, shugaban masu ra'ayin mazan jiya na Majalisar Kasa, ya zagaya Turai, yana tattaunawa da ministocin harkokin waje na Burtaniya, Rasha, da Austria, kuma ya gano cewa babu ɗayansu da ke son tallafawa Faransa a kan Jamusawa. Ya ba da rahoto ga Gwamnati cewa babu wani madadin don yin shawarwari game da armistice. Ya yi tafiya zuwa Tours da Jamusawa suka mamaye kuma ya sadu da Bismarck a ranar 1 ga Nuwamba. Shugaban gwamnatin Jamus ya bukaci a ba da dukkan Alsace, da wasu sassan Lorraine, da kuma biyan diyya mai yawa. Gwamnatin Tsaro ta Kasa ta yanke shawarar ci gaba da yakin da kuma tayar da sabon soja don yaƙi da Jamusawa. Sabbin sojojin Faransa da aka tsara sun sami nasara guda daya a
Coulmiers a ranar 10 ga Nuwamba, amma yunƙurin Janar Auguste-Alexandre Ducrot a ranar 29 ga Nuwamba a Villiers don fita daga Paris ya ci nasara tare da asarar sojoji 4,000, idan aka kwatanta da asarar Jamus 1,700.