ON the east side of the circle of statues to French cities that bounds the Place de la Concorde, the female figure representing Strasbourg, capital of Alsace-Lorraine, for many years sat draped in ...

THE question of Alsace-Lorraine cannot be thrust aside at the time of the general settlement of accounts to which the future peace congress will have to give its attention. The war did not break out ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

On changerait plutot le coeur de place Que de changer la vieille Alsace. THE greatest evil in our age is war. The most menacing feature of this evil is readiness for war, which makes of peace a ...

River Cruise Editor Michelle Baran is sailing through France's Alsace-Lorraine region aboard European Waterways' new hotel barge, Le Panache. Read her first dispatch here; her second dispatch follows.

Both Alsace and part of Lorraine became German territory after the French defeat in the Franco-Prussian war in 1870. It would remain part of Germany until the end of the First World war when French ...

There have been reports today of fierce fighting in Alsace and Lorraine. The French were successful in Alsace but in Lorraine they suffered a reverse. The French troops having advanced into Lorraine ...