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...Majorelle created something new by studying the flora and fauna of Lorraine and sculpting them into his home, inscribing nature into culture. Villa Majorelle is closed due to coronavirus....
...One of the wilder myths circulating without evidence on social media, including in discussion groups used by the gilets jaunes protesters, has been that Mr Macron is preparing to cede control over Alsace-Lorraine...
...The eastern village of Colombey-les-deux-Églises, where he made his home in a modest manor house, is a place of pilgrimage, with a giant version of his wartime symbol, the Cross of Lorraine, on the overlooking...
...Andriot recalled losing grip of his machine gun in the surf as German bullets whistled past his head; he dived to regain the weapon and his coveted beret with the Free French badge and Cross of Lorraine....
...Instead, the president opted to spend the day in Bamako for a Franco-African summit....
...opera-national-lorraine.fr...
...This almost suicidal French attack is inextricably connected to the history of Franco-German relations, and of Alsace-Lorraine, over the past 150 years....
...“I’ve always told people that my Mum does the best quiche Lorraine in the world,” he continues, “Let me put that to the test.”...
...The Franco-Prussian war had resulted in humiliation for the French; Paris fell in 1871, and the territories of Alsace and Lorraine were ceded to Germany....
...Europe’s state system suffered from the problem that Prussia, having defeated France in 1870, united Germany and annexed Alsace-Lorraine, had guaranteed the lasting enmity of Paris....
...www.opera-national-lorraine.fr...
...Introduced to Paris by people fleeing Alsace-Lorraine at the time of the Franco-Prussian war, these cavernous, noisy, brightly lit places specialise in oyster platters, onion soup, choucroute garni (sausages...
...The 1870-1871 Franco-Prussian war had left France angry, humiliated and bent on revanche (revenge)....
...François-Ignace’s son, François- Charles de Wendel, borrowed money to buy back the business after the accession of Napoleon, and by the eve of the Franco-Prussian war in 1870, the Wendels were the biggest...
...Paris has also grown increasingly anxious that the Franco-German engine that drove the European project since its inception has stalled....
...In the 1970s, he had joined a Franco-German Lions Club in Strasbourg and even bought a BMW....
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