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Alsace-Lorraine facts for kids
Alsace-Lorraine was a territory created by German Empire in 1871 after its victory in Franco-Prussian War. It was made up of main parts of French regions of Alsace and Lorraine, hence its name. France took it back in 1918 and it became part of that country as a result of Treaty of Versailles in 1919. Nazi Germany de facto took it back in 1940 but France took it back in 1945. The territory has been part of France since then.
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Louis-Frédéric Schutzenberger's The Exodus (1872), depicting Alsatians leaving newly annexed Alsace for France.
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The loss of Alsace and Lorraine personified. Statue in Nancy, in the French part of Lorraine.
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"The Black Stain": In France, children were taught in school not to forget the lost provinces, which were coloured in black on maps. Painting by Albert Bettannier, a native of Metz who fled to Paris after the annexation of his hometown.
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The neo-Romanesque Metz railway station, built in 1908. Kaiser Wilhelm II instigated the construction of various buildings in Alsace-Lorraine supposedly representative of German architecture.
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German patrol during the Saverne Affair
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An Alsatian in traditional dress and a French officer, c.1919.
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Metz and the Lorraine returned to France, front page of Le Petit Journal newspaper dated from 8 December 1918.
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Monument to the Malgré-nous in Obernai, Bas-Rhin.
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Spatial distribution of dialects in Alsace-Lorraine prior to the expansion of standard French in the 20th century