Alsace-Lorraine (Alsace-Lorraine`) (1,640), a territory originally of the German empire, ceded to Louis XIV. by the peace of Westphalia in 1648, but restored to Germany after the Franco-German war in 1870-71, by the peace of Frankfort; is under a governor general bearing the title of “Statthalter”; is a great wine-producing country, yields cereals and tobacco, its cotton manufacture the most important in Germany.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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