A chip on France's shoulder. (Alsace region)

The Economist (US) | August 19, 1989 | Copyright

A chip on France's shoulder

CAN Alsace really still have an identity problem? Germany annexed it in 1870 and again in 1940. But it is more than 70 years since France took Alsace back at the end of the first world war and 45 since it did so after the second. Some 60% of today's Alsatians cannot remember any but French teachers, drill sergeants and bosses. Except for Germanly neat villages and a disappearing dialect, Alsace, surely, is now just another region of France?

It might be if Alsatians themselves and the "French of the interior", as they half-jokingly ...

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