From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 58643
Date: 2008-05-19
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From: "Rick McCallister" <gabaroo6958@...>
> They seemed to have been forced out --that was the way
> things worked. In any case, they were refugees and
> there were supposedly tens of thousands of them.
> Everyone I've spoke to who is of Alsatian ancestry has
> told me the same stories --that their ancestors left
> there because it was always changing hands and
> religion.
> My Irish Dolan ancestors were forced out for being
> Catholics -actually shipped to America in chains after
> the Siege of Limerick, so it worked both ways.
>
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This is what the Herder's Lexikon says :
this was printed in 1904 when Alsace
was under German Rule :
"Die Bevölkerung wurde durch eine gute Verwaltung (D'Angervilliers 1716-24)
versöhnt, bewahrte aber Deutschen Character und einen starken
Particularismus."
The population was reconciled thru a good administration (D'Angervilliers
1716-24), kept its German character and a strong idiosyncrasy.
I don't see any reason why the Germans in 1904 should have been complacent
with France's rule over Alsace.
The Article about Alsace does not mention any wrong-doing by the French in
this area !!
I suppose that they would have been the happiest to spew some bad words,
if that were possible.
I still don't buy a word you say.
I think this is not real family souvenirs,
this is more the standard anti-French propaganda
that your ancestors have learned after 300 years
of life within English-speaking people.
Arnaud
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