Excerpt from The Heart of Alsace The annexed provinces will have no reason to blush for their half-century of slavery! Those who have failed to keep the compact of silent fidelity are but a handful. The hostages of defeat, Alsatians and Lorraines have courageously accepted the part of the representatives of human dignity protesting against brutal force. The small nations owe them a deep debt of gratitude. Their courageous resistance has had this result: that hence forth the strong will hesitate to treat the weak like a flock of cattle to be driven at will. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.