From 15 December, however, Mecklenburg's army was reinforced on the left, and in light of that situation Chanzy finally made a retreat to Le Mans.

[4] On December 11, 1870, with a dramatic failure for several days with the Prussian Army by Grand Duke Origin Mecklenburg in the Battle of Beaugency, Chanzy began conducting a deplete.

[4] Fighting broke out shortly after six o'clock in the afternoon on December 14, 1870, when a German major, who had been informed by some prisoners that the area had been abandoned, led a detachment of dragon cavalry into Fréteval was suddenly bombarded and forced to withdraw.

Mecklenburg found it difficult to drive the Army of the Loire further from Paris,[4] and the situation showed that the French position at Fréteval was too strong to be captured.

[3][11] With the retreat of the French, the German army has set up a battle line extending from Cloyes and Morée in the north, through the Vendôme, to Blois southeast.