From Abraham Lincoln's appetite for apples to Mark Twain’s odes to oysters, these are some of the surprising favourite foods ...

Europe has many sizeable countries with expansive topographical features to match. Here are the biggest organized from least ...

Robert Schuman: Father of Europe The man behind the declaration, Robert Schuman, was German by birth but became a French citizen in 1919, after Alsace-Lorraine was returned to France. When World War ...

We had been learning specifically about Alsace-Lorraine then and how the land was disputed between France and Germany for its coal deposits, helpful in wartime.

The area was historically contested between France and Germany, with centuries of warfare in the wider Alsace and Lorraine regions over who the west bank of the Rhine belonged to. Following the Franco ...

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 ...

The Treaty of Versailles, which was signed on June 28, 1919, was intended to bring peace following World War I — but instead produced a greater war, World War 2. After Germany was forced to assume ...

Two Sisters: Betrayal, Love, and Resistance in Wartime France By Rosie Whitehouse Union Square & Co. 256 pages We may earn a commission when you buy products through the links on our site.

Declaration of Clemenceau to the Chamber of Deputies (11 November 1918): “The French territory has been freed by the strength of arms.” “Let us unite to hail the return of Alsace and Lorraine to our ...

The borderline between Germany and Alsace is strictly guarded, lest German minds not yet wholly converted to the new order be disturbed by the drastic methods employed in Alsace. Let us now examine in ...