Hitherto I have said nothing of Alsace and Lorraine, and my silence has been intentional. Although so hotly debated on both sides, the question appears to me only a secondary one.

ON the east side of the circle of statues to French cities that bounds the Place de la Concorde, the female figure representing Strasbourg, capital of Alsace-Lorraine, for many years sat draped in ...

By the law of June 9, 1871, it is enacted: "The Provinces of Alsace and Lorraine, ceded by France in the peace preliminaries of Feb. 26, 1871, under limits definitely fixed in the Treaty of Peace ...

After France lost the Franco-Prussian War in 1871, Germany annexed it. It bounced back to France after World War I. All these centuries as a political shuttlecock have given Alsace a hybrid culture.

On a wine-tasting holiday to Alsace, Nick Trend tracks down the vineyards where some of the greatest rieslings are made ...

Another cause of dissatisfaction in Alsace and Lorraine is contained in the story of Les Soeurs de Ribeauville: “From 1871 to 1918, Les Soeurs de Ribeauville, a society of Catholic Sisters ...

One case in point: Alsace-Lorraine, taken from France by Bismarck in 1871 and returned after the victories of Marshal Foch in 1918.

Why 100 years after, Alsace remains a region ‘in between’ On 8 December 1918, the French president Raymond Poincaré, along with Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau and several generals ...

By Nam Sang-soKorean and Japanese elderly people may remember learning a story, “The Last Class,” originally “La Derniere Classe,” in elementary school.The story was ...