 The Prussian Chancellor Otto von Bismarck sent his personal banker Gerson von Bleichröder to negotiate between the French government and French financial circles.Adolphe Thiers, the head of the French provisional government, offered an indemnity of 1.5 billion francs and claimed that France would be unable to pay 5 billion.Bismarck responded by saying that the Prussian Army would occupy France, "we will see if "we" can get 5 billion francs from it".