Quote by Charles Brandt

“I hope that in the final settlement of the war, you insist that the Germans retain Lorraine, because I can imagine no greater burden…

— George S. Patton Jr

“The humiliation of their arms and the loss of Alsace and Lorraine made a sore pull on the endurance of this sensitive people; and…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“We’ve already visited Alsace. Twice.” “Yes, but I did not tell you all there is to know of it.” “I can hardly wait to…

— K.M. Shea

“In the days after Sedan, Prussian envoys met with the French and demanded a large cash indemnity as well as the cession of Alsace…

— Geoffrey Wawro

Germany has solemnly recognized and guaranteed France her frontiers as determined after the Saar plebiscite... We thereby finally renounced all claims to Alsace-Lorraine, a…

— Adolf Hitler

“In essence, France no longer existed. It existed only in the hatred of the French for one another.”

— Raymond Aron

“Actually, she had now made it extremely likely that, if Germany developed any expansionist tendencies at all, the French would be dragged into another…

— James L. Stokesbury

“The sudden, brilliant victory in France, like a Frankenstein monster, had turned against us; we had far outstripped our ability to supply the troops.”

— Robert E. Merriam

“Some good things did come out of France, but the place has become unbearably Gaulish don’t you think?”

— Peter Murphy

“He used to be a German, but he completely recovered.”

— Boris Akunin

“I had come to the conclusion that I must really be French, only no one had ever informed me of this fact. I loved…

— Julia Child

“Germany was my country where I grew up rooted.”

— Claudia Poser