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".****