Quotes & Sayings About Alsace

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 hear more," he said with no enthusiasm. Cinderella — K.M. Shea

The humiliation of their arms and the loss of Alsace and Lorraine made a sore pull on the endurance of this sensitive people; and their hearts are still hot, not so much against Germany as against the Empire. — Robert Louis Stevenson

I grew up in Alsace - in Strasbourg, by the canal; the family business was coal handling. It was still in the days when three generations would live under the same roof. There were 15 people for lunch, 20 for dinner. — Jean-Georges Vongerichten

The ceding of Alsace-Lorraine is nothing but war in perpetuity under the mask of peace. — Edgar Quinet

This is what I grew up on in Alsace. It's choucroute. I'd wake up every morning with the smell of cabbage and potatoes and pork. — Jean-Georges Vongerichten

I grew up near Strasbourg in Alsace, where my family were coal merchants. — Jean-Georges Vongerichten

I was born on September 30, 1939, in Rosheim, a small medieval city of Alsace in France. My father, Pierre Lehn, then a baker, was very interested in music, played the piano and the organ, and became, later, having given up the bakery, the organist of the city. My mother Marie kept the house and the shop. — Jean-Marie Lehn

After our humiliating loss of Alsace-Lorraine, France needs a victory to restore pride in the nation. — Jules Ferry

By the same right under which France took Flanders, Lorraine and Alsace, and will sooner or later take Belgium
by that same right Germany takes over Schleswig; it is the right of civilization as against barbarism, of progress as against stability. Even if the agreements were in Denmark's favor
which is very doubtful-this right carries more weight than all the agreements, for it is the right of historical evolution. — Friedrich Engels

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 land for which we have fought two great wars. — Adolf Hitler