Alsace-Lorraine
PRESIDENT WILSON’S ADDRESS TO CONGRESS, JAN. 8,1918
. . . The wrong done to France by Prussia in 1871 in the matter of Alsace-Lorraine, which has unsettled 
the peace of the world for nearly fifty years should be righted in order that peace may once more be 
made secure in the interest of all.
Citizens possessed of souls and of intelligence, • are not merchandise to be traded and therefore it 
is not lawful to make them the subject of a contract.
Protest of the Representatives of Alsace-Lorraine, delivered in the Reichstag in Berlin, February 18, 1874.

"SHE IS WAITING . . "
Reproduction of J. J. Henner’s painting offered to Gambetta by a group of Alsatian women in remembrance 
of the National Defense of 1870-71.

. . . Peoples and provinces are not to be bartered about from sovereignty to sovereignty as if they were 
mere chattels and pawns in a game.
PRESIDENT WILSON
Address to Congress, February 11, 1918.

STATEMENT

of the Representatives of Alsace-Lorraine read before the National Assembly in Bordeaux, March 1, 1871

Handed over, in contempt of all justice, and by an odious abuse of force, to the domination of foreigners, 
we have now a final duty to perform.
We declare once more null and void a compact which disposes of us without our consent.
Henceforth and forever, we shall one and all be justified in claiming our rights, in whatever manner and 
measure our conscience may dictate.
At the moment of leaving this assembly, in which our dignity no longer permits us to sit, and in spite of 
the bitterness of our grief, the supreme thought which we find at the bottom of our hearts is a thought 
of gratitude to those who, for six months, have incessantly fought in our defense, and our unalterable 
attachment to the country from which we are torn by violence.
We shall follow you with our wishes, and we shall wait, with full confidence in the future, until regenerated 
France resumes the course of her great destiny.
Your brothers of Alsace and of Lorraine, now separated from the common family, will cherish for France, 
absent from their hearths, a filial affection, preserved until the day when she shall recover her rightful 
place there once more.
ALBRECHT
BOERSCH
LEON GAMBETTA
KABLE
MELSHEIM
RENCKER
A. TACHARD
ED. BAMBERGER
L. CHAUFFOUR
JULES GROSJEAN
E. KELLER
TH. NOBLOT
ALPH. SAGLIO
E. TEUTSCH
BARDON
DESCHANGE
FREDERIC HARTMANN
ALFRED KOECHLIN
DR. ANDRE OSTERMANN
SCHEURER-KESTNER
TITOT
BOELL
DORNES
HUMBERT
KUSS
V. REHM
SCHNEEGANS

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