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> France lost a region called "l'Alsace et la Loraine" and it leads to WWI. I know quite a bit about the events that led up to WWI and I'd never really heard o
by pan69 11y ago
> France lost a region called "l'Alsace et la Loraine" and it leads to WWI.
I know quite a bit about the events that led up to WWI and I'd never really heard of this before. The events that led to WWI are very complex.
- vmorgulis 11y ago"Memories of the Napoleonic Wars were still quite fresh in the 1870s. Right up until the Franco-Prussian War, the French had maintained a long-standing desire to establish their entire eastern frontier on the Rhine, and thus they were viewed by most 19th century Germans as an aggressive people." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alsace-Lorraine#From_annexation_to_World_War_I https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alsace-Lorraine#From_annexatio...
- mercurial 11y agoWhen you read popular French literature from around this time, you find extremely strong anti-German sentiment. This may have played on the reaction of the government, but what I think it influenced the most was the treaty of Versailles after the war. The treaty was a "revenge" of sorts for the harsh conditions imposed by Germany after the war of 1870 (and, of course, for the massive loss of life and material destruction of WWI).