Léon Gambetta recruited 200,000 men to face the Prussians

Léon Gambetta is a French politician who held the positions of Minister of War and Minister of the Interior. He partnered with Charles de Freycinet to raise a massive army of 200,000 men, which had to be fed, equipped, and trained in eleven dedicated camps. Despite this considerable logistical effort, the military action resulted in failure against the numerical and material superiority of the Prussian army.