 The Chancellor demanded the cession of all of Alsace, parts of Lorraine, and enormous reparations.The Government of National Defence decided to continue the war and raise a new army to fight the Germans.The newly organized French armies won a single victory at Coulmiers on 10 November, but an attempt by General Auguste-Alexandre Ducrot on 29 November at Villiers to break out of Paris was defeated with a loss of 4,000 soldiers, compared with 1,700 German casualties.