France ceded Alsace - Lorraine to Germany in 1871.

1871年法国把阿尔萨斯—洛林地区割让给了德国。

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Alsace-Lorraine was ceded to Germany by France in 1871.

法国于1871年将阿尔萨斯—洛林割让给德国。

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The Line was intended to only defend the coal and steel industries of Alsace and Lorraine, which it did.

法国构筑马其诺防线的目的仅仅是捍卫阿尔萨斯和洛林的煤炭和钢铁工业，它确实做得了。 德军认识到攻击马其诺防线将过于昂贵，所以选择了不同的路线: 通过比利时。

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It must give up Alsace-Lorraine, a part of France it had held for almost fifty years.

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The French army was humiliated by the loss of Alsace-Lorraine, then shaken by the Paris Commune uprising.

ECONOMIST: The Dreyfus affair

Would the border region of Alsace-Lorraine, with its rich seams of coal, again be fought over as European nations struggled to control a key commodity, coal to produce electricity, needed for a war-making machine?

FORBES: Leadership

Overtaken by Germany when it won the Franco-Prussian war in 1871, Alsace and a good part of Lorraine sent streams of refugees to Nancy, whose population nearly doubled in the last quarter of the 19th century.

ECONOMIST: Decorative arts