Excerpt from The Question of Alsace-Lorraine<br><br>A vital part of the French nation, comprising the departments of the haut-rhin and the bas-rhin, and the arrondissements of Metz, Thionville, Sarre guemines, chateau-salim, and Sarrebourg, with more than a million and a half of inhabitants, was organised as a Prussian dependency and placed in the hands of Count von bismarck-bohlen on the 2lst August 1870. The Prussian General Staff care fully defined its limits, geographically and statistic ally, in September, 1870, and it was surrendered to the' German Empire, after some modifications of the frontier, relating to Belfort and certain compensa tions, by Article I. Of the Preliminary Clauses signed at Versailles on the 26th February 1871, and by Article I. Of the Treaty of Peace signed at Frankfort on the loth May 1871. This annexation was forced upon France. It was carried out against the express Wish of the people of alsace-lorraine.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.