969274 Count Benedetti at Ems, 13 July 1870 (engraving) by German School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Count Benedetti at Ems, Prussia, 13 July 1870. The French ambassador arriving to present his government\'s demand to Wilhelm I of Prussia that the candidature of Prince Leopold of Hohenzollern for the Spanish throne be withdrawn and never renewed. Misleading accounts of their meeting inflamed tensions between the two countries, leading to the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War. Illustration for Deutsch-Franzosische Krieg by Egmont Fehleisen (Reutlingen, c 1895).); 穢 Look and Learn.