After a series of haggling, on December 17, 1891, the Anti-French Alliance finally reached an agreement and signed the "Proposed Measures Against France."
By this step, the distribution of spoils was almost complete. All that was needed was to have the French sign at the Vienna Peace Conference to confirm its legitimacy.
Although the countries of the Anti-French Alliance had reached a preliminary understanding beforehand, the fact that they were able to reach a preliminary agreement in less than two months still demonstrated efficiency.
Upon receiving the signed treaty, Franz highly suspected that everyone wanted to speed up the process so they could go home for Christmas.
The "draft" was indeed a "draft"—aside from agreements on the broader framework, the specific details were largely blank, with many clauses being ambiguous.
For example, regarding the dissection of France's territory, there were only place names, and specific boundary lines were not reflected in the treaty.
