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Rot un Wiss, traditional flag of Alsace
History Germania Superior (Pagus Alsatiae) (83–475) Alemanni (circa 213–496) Alamannia (3rd-century–911) Duchy of Alsace (circa 630–699) Treaty of Verdun (843) Prince-Bishopric of Strasbourg (982–1803) County of Ferrette (11th-century–14th-century) Salm (1165−1793) Landgraviate of Alsace (1186–1646) Lower Alsace Upper Alsace Further Austria (13th-century–1648) Décapole (1354–1679) County of Hanau-Lichtenberg (1456–1736) Upper Rhenish Circle (1500–1679) Imperial Territory of Alsace-Lorraine (1871–1918) Gau Baden-Elsaß (1940–1945) Alsace (1945–2016) Grand Est (2016–) European Collectivity of Alsace (2021-)
Culture Coat of arms Flag Anthem People Language Demographics Musée alsacien ( Hagenau | Strasbourg)
Religion according to Concordat in Alsace-Moselle (1801): (including Lorraine) Catholic Church Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Strasbourg ( Immediately subject to the Holy See) ( Prince-Bishopric of Strasbourg) ( Lorraine: Roman Catholic Diocese of Metz) Protestantism: Union of Protestant Churches of Alsace and Lorraine: Lutheranism: Protestant Church of the Augsburg Confession of Alsace and Lorraine Calvinism: Protestant Reformed Church of Alsace and Lorraine Jewish consistories: Strasbourg Colmar ( Lorraine: Metz)
Law Local law in Alsace-Moselle Concordat in Alsace-Moselle
Administrative divisions Capital: Strasbourg Bas-Rhin ( Unterelsaß) Arrondissement of Haguenau-Wissembourg Arrondissement of Molsheim Arrondissement of Saverne Arrondissement of Sélestat-Erstein Arrondissement of Strasbourg Haut-Rhin ( Oberelsaß) Arrondissement of Altkirch Arrondissement of Colmar-Ribeauvillé Arrondissement of Mulhouse Arrondissement of Thann-Guebwiller
Politics Regional Council of Alsace (1982–2015) Alsace independence movement Assembly of Alsace (2021-)
Alsace in the European Union European Parliament elections Constituency
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Flag of Lorraine since the 13th century
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Culture Coat of arms Flag Symbol People Languages Lorrain Lorraine Franconian Low Alemannic Demographics Musée lorrain
Religion Roman Catholicism: Diocese of Metz ( Immediately subject to the Holy See) Diocese of Nancy Diocese of Saint-Dié Diocese of Verdun Protestantism: Union of Protestant Churches of Alsace and Lorraine ( Moselle) Lutheranism: Protestant Church of the Augsburg Confession of Alsace and Lorraine ( Moselle) Calvinism: Reformed Church of Alsace and Lorraine ( Moselle) United Protestant Church of France (rest of Lorraine) Jewish consistories: Metz ( Moselle) Nancy (rest of Lorraine)
Law Local law in Alsace-Moselle Concordat in Alsace-Moselle (1801)
Administrative divisions Meurthe-et-Moselle (54) Capital: Nancy Arrondissement of Briey Arrondissement of Lunéville Arrondissement of Nancy Arrondissement of Toul Meuse (55) Capital: Bar-le-Duc Arrondissement of Bar-le-Duc Arrondissement of Commercy Arrondissement of Verdun Moselle ( Lothringen, 57) Capital: Metz Arrondissement of Forbach-Boulay-Moselle Arrondissement of Metz Arrondissement of Sarrebourg-Château-Salins Arrondissement of Sarreguemines Arrondissement of Thionville Vosges (88) Capital: Épinal Arrondissement of Épinal Arrondissement of Neufchâteau Arrondissement of Saint-Dié
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This is an incomplete list of well-known Alsatians and Lorrainians (people from the region of Alsace and the region of Lorraine). Alsatian culture is characterized by a blend of German and French influences. ^[1]

Alsatians

• Jakob Ammann (1644–between 1712 and 1730), anabaptist preacher and namesake of Amish movement
• Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi (1834–1904), sculptor, designer of the Statue of Liberty
• Hippolyte Bernheim (1840–1919), neurologist
• René Beeh (1886−1922), artist
• Marc Bloch (1886–1944), historian
• Jean Arp (1886–1966), artist
• Hans Bethe (1906–2005), nuclear physicist, 1967 Nobel Prize in Physics laureate
• Mehdi Baala (born 1978)
• Karl Brandt
• Sébastien Brant
• Martin Bucer
• Wolfgang Capito
• Johann Stephan Decker (1784–1844), painter
• Gustave Doré, artist, engraver, illustrator and sculptor
• Alfred Dreyfus, military officer
• Christine Ferber (born 1960), pastry chef and chocolatier
• Charles de Foucauld
• Charles Friedel
• Charles Frédéric Gerhardt
• Gottfried von Strassburg
• Ion Gheorghe Maurer, Prime-Minister of Romania (1961-1974)
• Johann Herrmann
• Josel of Rosheim
• Caspar Isenmann
• Valérien Ismaël
• Alfred Kastler
• François Christophe Kellermann
• Jean-Baptiste Kléber
• Jacques Paul Klein
• Maurice Koechlin
• Katia and Maurice Krafft
• Herrad of Landsberg
• Jean-Marie Lehn
• Pope Leo IX
• Sébastien Loeb
• Philip James de Loutherbourg
• Ludwig I of Bavaria
• Marcel Marceau
• Master of the Drapery Studies
• Paul-Henri Mathieu
• Yvan Muller
• Charles Münch
• Thomas Murner
• Victor Nessler
• Jean Frédéric Oberlin
• Jérémie Jacques Oberlin
• Thierry Omeyer
• Pierre Pflimlin
• Jean Rapp
• Beatus Rhenanus
• Claude Rich
• Paul Rohmer
• Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper
• Wilhelm Philippe Schimper
• Francis Schlatter
• Morgan Schneiderlin
• Schlumberger brothers
• Martin Schongauer
• Albert Schweitzer
• Philipp Jacob Spener
• Sebastian Stoskopff
• Jacques Sturm
• Charles Xavier Thomas
• Catherine Trautmann
• Marie Tussaud
• Tomi Ungerer
• Emile Waldteufel
• Jean-Jacques Waltz
• Arsène Wenger
• Jacob Wimpfeling
• Charles-Adolphe Wurtz
• William Wyler

Lotharingians

• Raymond Aron
• Maurice Barrès
• Jacques Callot
• Emile Durkheim, sociologist
• Emile Gallé
• Claude Gellée
• Joan of Arc, national heroine of France
• Jean Lurçat
• Marcel Mauss
• Michel Platini
• Henri Poincaré, mathematician and physicist
• Raymond Poincaré, President of France

Undesignated

• Léon Blum (Alsatian extraction)
• Daniel Blumenthal
• Ettore and Jean Bugatti, automotive designers
• Albert Carré, opera director
• Henri Cartan
• Claude, Duke of Guise
• Paul Colin
• Robert de Cotte
• Darry Cowl
• Pierre Dac
• Mireille Delunsch
• Emile Erckmann
• Alfred Faust
• Charles Fehrenbach (astronomer)
• Jules Ferry
• Johann Fischart
• René Fonck
• Franz I, Holy Roman Emperor
• Pierre Fresnay
• Émile Friant
• Henri Grégoire
• Antoine Griezmann
• Johannes Gutenberg, invented movable type printing
• Counts of Habsburg
• Jean-Jacques Henner
• Hugo Hergesell
• Rouget de l'Isle
• Patricia Kaas
• Marie Pierre Koenig
• Antoine Charles Louis Lasalle, general
• Stanislaus I Leszczyński, King of Poland
• Jules Bastien-Lepage
• Charles Loeffler
• Lothair II of Lotharingia
• Johanan Luria
• Hubert Lyautey
• Nathalie Marquay
• André Maurois, author
• Jules Méline
• Michel Ney
• François-Joseph Offenstein
• Pilâtre de Rozier
• Rabbenu Gershom
• Louis Ratisbonne
• Pierre-Louis Roederer
• Richard Rohmer (Alsatian extraction)
• Maurice de Saxe
• Johannes Schefferus
• Victor Schœlcher
• Robert Schuman
• Paul Schutzenberger
• Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber (Alsatian extraction)
• Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban
• Paul Verlaine, poet
• Zwentibold

See also

• Alsace
• Duchy of Lorraine
• List of Strasbourg people
• French American
• French people
• German American
• German people
• List of French Americans
• List of French people
• List of German Americans
• List of Germans
• Lorraine
• Lotharingia

References