Re: For MKelkar, Kishore and all those other anti-linguists

From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 58681
Date: 2008-05-19

>> > >
>> > =========
>> >
>> > 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
>> >
>> > ===============
>> The issue wasn't French vs. German at the time I'm
>> talking about but Catholic vs. Protestant. My
>> ancestors that came through Alsace were both French
>> and German. They had to leave because --according to
>> what they claimed, Protestantism was not tolerated
>> in France
>
> ****GK: Cf.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revocation_of_the_Edict_of_Nantes
>
> Three of my colleagues in our Department happen to be
> of Huguenot ancestry. One still has a family Bible
> with a French inscription that on (I think it was
> July) of 1685 "nous avons quitte le pays de la
> tyrannie".****

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I suppose nobody contests that historical fact,

We are discussing the specific issue of Alsace
and there is no particular reason to think that
this area was subjected to the same religious "cleaning"
as elsewhere,
MAybe as an historian,
you have some particular insight on Alsace around 1700 ?

Arnaud