@inbook{10.2307/j.ctt9qd811.13, ISBN = {9781845457242}, URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt9qd811.13}, abstract = {In the weeks following the November 1918 Armistice, windows and balconies were bedecked in blue, red, and white bunting and Alsatians poured into the streets to greet French troops. In Strasbourg, municipal and regional leaders, led by interim mayor Jacques Peirotes, welcomed the French as liberators. The local press echoed such sentiments.¹ Charles Frey—the erstwhile Liberal journalist, later mayor of Strasbourg and member of the French Chamber of Deputies—wrote, “We are again French, returned to the Fatherland, which we never stopped loving. We are freed and saved … in liberty, equality, and fraternity: We are French!”² The happiness}, bookauthor = {Christopher J. Fischer}, booktitle = {Alsace to the Alsatians?: Visions and Divisions of Alsatian Regionalism, 1870-1939}, edition = {NED - New edition, 1}, pages = {128--151}, publisher = {Berghahn Books}, title = {“Ne toucher pas de choses d’Alsace”: The Return of French Rule to Alsace, 1918–1925}, year = {2014} }