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There Is Much To Do. The school bell rang. The little girls bustled onto their narrow benches. Sister Elizabeth called the roll. Instead of "Hier!", the little girls answered "Ici", and giggled at the unfamiliar sound. Then Sister Elizabeth spoke in French, translating phrase by phrase into the Alsatian German dialect...
Frederic Francois Chopin, Polish pianist-composer (of French-Polish parents) was Germanized by the same Nazis who have banned his music in occupied Poland since 1939. Chopin, they announced, was "of course German," a descendant of an old Alsatian family named Schopping...
...with thrice-married, 33-year-old Count Alfred de Marigny and announced that they had eloped. Nancy was 18 that week. Her father roared, her mother wept, her set raised their eyebrows. They were remembering De Marigny's first wife, well-endowed Lucie-Alice Cahen, an Alsatian girl whom he married in Paris in 1937. Four months later they were divorced, and the Count failed to observe the code and return the dowry...
...Statue of Liberty was sculptured in Paris by Alsatian Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, shipped to the U.S. in sections...
Cornell's brilliant, Alsatian-born astrophysicist Hans Albrecht Bethe thus elaborated his already famed theory of the source of stellar energy (TIME, Feb. 27, 1939) in a lecture under the auspices of Sigma Xi, national science honor society, now published...