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Show 1 STRASSBURG 1 4 Parisians who have year by year since the treaty of Berlin which bereft France of the rich province of .Alsace-Lorraine placed wreaths of mourning on the Strass-burg Strass-burg monumfnt in token of their lament may now garland the famous monument with the flowers of victory. For the French poilus under General Gouraud have entered Strassburg, amid the acclamations of the inhabitants of this sturdy provincial city, now, as always. French by history, tradition and sympathy. Strassburg, which is an episcopal see and the chief city of lower Alsace, is rivaled only hy Metz and Muelhausen in point of population. It is a fortified city, but save for occupation by the Germans, lias passed practically unscathed by cannonade can-nonade and other modern warfare. The city is situated on the III, a tributary of the Rhine. The famous minster of Strassburg was founded in 101.5 and completed com-pleted in 1439. The university, founded in 1C21, suppressed in 1790, during the French revolution, was reopened in 1872. The city has many handsome public and private structures. It is a manufacturing point of considerable importance. It was at Strassburg that the Emperor Julian defeated the Alemanni In 337. The town was seized by the fourteenth Louis In 1GS1. It remained a French city until 1S70, when it capitulated to the Germans and with the remainder of Alsace-Lorraine fell to the portion of the splendid empire which Prince Bismarck erected at Versailles and which in 1918 was to fall to pieces -under the reign of the grandson of Bismarck's pseudo-master, Kaiser Wilhelm Wil-helm tier Grosse. |