Lorraine
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Lorraine is a historical area of Eastern France that today falls within the administrative region of Grand Est. It has its origins in the medieval kingdom of Lotharingia, named after Emperor Lothair I
Cathedral of Saint Stephen in Metz, capital of Lorraine
Lorraine in 1870: Colours show the original departments' territories.
Chajoux Valley
Opéra-Théâtre de Metz
Alsace–Lorraine
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Alsace–Lorraine, officially the Imperial Territory of Alsace–Lorraine, was a territory of the German Empire between 1871 and 1918, comprising most of Alsace and part of Lorraine. Its capital was Stras
Lorraine
…a part of Lorraine (Bezirk Lothringen, corresponding to the current department of Moselle). The department formed part of the new German Empire's Imperial Territory of Alsace–Lorraine. In the French Third Republic, the revanchist movement developed to recover this territory. The Imperial German administration strongly discouraged the…
The general government of Elsass (1875) by A. Petermann
The Black Stain (1887) by Albert Bettannier
Statue in the Place Maginot in Nancy that personifies the loss of Alsace as the separation of a mother and daughter
The neo-Romanesque Metz railway station, built in 1908. Kaiser Wilhelm II instigated the construction of various buildings in Alsace–Lorraine that were to be representative of German architecture.