Armée de l'Est

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The Armée de l'Est (Army of the East; German - Ostarmee; also Second Loire Army; nicknamed the Bourbaki armee, after its first commander General Charles Denis Sauter Bourbaki) was a French army which took part in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71. It was formed towards the end of the war out of the remains of the Loire Army, paramilitaries (Freischärlern) and new recruits.