The flames of Strasbourg were lit, and the revolutionaries throughout the city were awakened, and the doors of the town hall were knocked on with sticks and forks, and a German flag was anxiously planted on the flagpole of the town hall. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info At the same time, in Nancy, in Meuse, in Vosges, the revolutionary masses are doing the same thing.

For some reason, the French Rhine Army stationed in Alsace Lorraine did not terrify the revolutionaries, as if they had not seen all this, and the revolutionaries did not attack the Rhine Army station, so the situation appeared strangely calm.

But the ownership of Alsace Lorraine is actually a bad account. Bai Nam's generation has studied Dude's "The Last Lesson" in middle school Chinese textbooks, and the patriotic feelings of the teachers and students are touching. Later, however, someone shot and said that the people of Alsace Lorraine spoke French, and even if they were forced to speak another language, they should have spoken French. Later, someone came out to explain that although the people of Alsace Lorraine were indeed native German-speakers, they actually identified more with France, so it was not impossible that the scene in the last lesson would happen.

Historically, the attribution of Alsace Lorraine dates back to the ninth century AD. The Carolingian dynasty arose in the Metz region of Lorraine, with its capital in Aachen, not far from Alsace-Lorraine. Charlemagne founded a great empire that unified Western Europe, but by the time of his successor, Louis the Pious, it was difficult to maintain and pass on this vast empire. In 843 A.D., the three sons of Louis the Pious signed the Treaty of Verdun on the basis of the principle of equity. According to the treaty, the empire was divided into three parts: the Kingdom of West Francia, the Kingdom of Middle Francia, and the Kingdom of East Francia, which were the predecessors of present-day France, Italy, and Germany. Alsace-Lorraine was at this time part of the Middle Frankish kingdom. But. The territory of the Middle Frankish Kingdom was long and narrow. The territory north of the Alps is easy to attack and difficult to defend. Only ten years later, the kings of East and West Francia crossed the border with ease, and the Frankish kings were defeated by the Strasbourg League in Alsace. The Alsace-Lorraine region, as the "land of dragons" of the Carolingian dynasty, has since become an important target for the two powerful neighbors of the east and the west. Charles the Bald of the West Francian kingdom took the lead and annexed the kingdom of Lothargi in 869, beginning the first "Hundred Years' War" for Alsace-Lorraine. Over the next hundred years, the Alsace-Lorraine region changed hands several times until the end of the 9th century. As a result of the dynastic change in the Kingdom of West Francia, the Holy Roman Empire, which replaced the Kingdom of East Francia, was able to maintain stable control over Alsace-Lorraine.

From the 13th century, however, the authority of the Holy Roman Emperor waned, and the core of the empire changed from Swabia in present-day southwestern Germany to Habsburg Austria. The Alsace-Lorraine region, which had been at the heart of the empire, gradually slipped to the periphery of the empire, and the Holy Roman Empire's political control over Alsace-Lorraine became increasingly loose, and many of the local secular lords gradually gained de facto autonomous status. In the 16th and 18th centuries, in order to break the encirclement of the Habsburgs (Austria, the Netherlands, and Spain were the main French territories at that time), France gradually annexed the Alsace-Lorraine region, because it was not only a north-south corridor connecting the Habsburg German possessions with the Dutch territories, but also an east-west artery connecting France and Germany.

Allegiance to France. But not French, in order to maintain the rule of the Bourbons in Alsace Lorraine. The Bourbons granted the region a number of preferential policies, such as the abolition of Protestant status in France, which allowed Protestantism in Alsace.

The Bourbons brought social stability and economic prosperity to Alsace-Lorraine, but the local population did not identify with the French and chose to be loyal to France only because of the safe environment it provided, which was an expensive luxury in war-torn Germany.

But it all came to an end with the victory of the German Revolution.

One called Carl? The German-Jews of Marens took the flame of internationalism from the Tang Dynasty and made it burn on German soil. In this war, the nascent German Republic, relying on the great faith of internationalism and its own unwavering courage, finally defeated two European powers, Prussia and Austria, and unified Germany except for a few regions such as Brandenburg.

More importantly, due to the advanced nature of the German National Revolution, its strict organization and reliable execution, coupled with a little assistance from the Tang Dynasty, the revolution was extremely thorough and made the results extraordinarily fruitful. The spirit of equality and freedom is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, such as Jews and other ethnic groups that have always been discriminated against, and because of the ready-made development experience and assistance of the Tang Dynasty, Germany's economic development is thriving and has made great progress.

All this has made the people of Alsace Lorraine hot-eyed. They were loyal to France because they were able to give them security, but now France is in chaos, Germany is strong enough to directly defeat Prussia and Austria, and has the support of the world's number one power, the Tang Dynasty. Well, it is clearly more attractive to be German than French.

At this time, the advantages of the same people and the same language finally came into being.

Ten years ago, Alsace Lorraine had initially had some people spreading the idea of internationalism, and after the founding of Germany, the Rhine River naturally could not prevent a large number of pamphlets carrying the essence of internationalist ideas from coming here. Although the ideas of the French Revolution were also spreading at the same time, the success of the German Revolution seemed to give more confidence to the people here, so the number of people joining the National Revolution gradually increased.

The Nationalist Party in Lorraine, Alsace, was relatively independent, and not even affiliated with the French Revolution, which gave them more autonomy in their operations.

Of course, such a major event as going to France and Germany had to be approved by the First International. After all, the Rhine-Ruhr region of Germany has a large amount of coal reserves, but it lacks iron ore, and the development of the steel industry, the core industry of industry, is lame. Lorraine, on the other hand, has a large iron ore mine, which is enough to make the German steel industry take off, so the German Revolution has given support from all sides since it came into contact with the Lorraine Revolution in Alsace, hoping that this matter can finally be realized.

(To be continued.) )