The President of the National Council of the two provinces, speaking from the tribune of the Palais Bourbon, assured the French Chamber that Alsace and Lorraine "gave themselves freely to France;" ...

Following the Franco-Prussian war of 1870, the land was ceded to Prussia (soon after the German Empire) and was seen as an ...

Émile Durkheim was a son of a son of a rabbi. This legacy traced back eight generations and he himself was in a yeshiva ...

The man behind the declaration, Robert Schuman, was German by birth but became a French citizen in 1919, after ...

From the unmissable Palace of Versailles to the architectural pearls of the Loire, here is a selection of the most magnificent French châteaux. These ten royal and ducal residences have become jewels ...

Germany lost about ten percent of its European territories—to Poland, France, Czechoslovakia ... century partitions of Poland and Alsace and Lorraine came with the defeat of France in 1870).

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The clue read, “The Grand Est region of France includes this hyphenated region that was briefly ceded to Germany in the 1940s.” He answered, “What is Alsace-Lorraine?” and doubled up to ...

On Thursday, April 10, at 7 p.m., the Fayetteville-Saint Avold Friendship Alliance will host an exclusive, one-time screening of The Girl Who Wore Freedom at the Cameo Art House Theatre. This deeply ...

France’s easternmost region, Alsace, is also one of its most enchanting — thanks largely to its location. Pressed up against the German border, along the Rhine, the region flip-flopped between ...

The Alsace region of France still represents a cultural continental divide, creating a fascinating mix of the best aspects of French and Germanic culture. France’s easternmost region ...