Where are they, you mean – Alsace and Lorraine are separate regions in France's north-eastern corner, and share borders with Belgium ... while the Duchy of Lorraine became officially French ...

In the 1300s, prophecies claiming France would be saved by “a virgin from the borders of Lorraine ... rest was the Holy Roman Empire’s Duchy of Lorraine) appeared at the French court ...

The German Kaiser is said to look 'with encouragement upon the scheme put forward by Herr OTTO ARENDT, a member of the Reichstag, for turning Alsace-Lorraine into a Grand Duchy and offering the ...

“The situation on Germany’s western borders,” proclaimed confident ... long battle over the Rhine is ended.” *Lorraine was an independent duchy from 843 till 1766, when it became a French ...