* 1842-1847 Empresario Henri Castro contracts to bring Alsatian immigrants from France, who use Port Lavaca as a holding site before moving on to settle Castroville in Medina County.

French medal struck in 1680 to celebrate the formal annexation of the ten Alsatian Free Imperial Cities of the Décapole the year before.

An Alsatian Jew named Cerf Berr, who had rendered great service to the French government as purveyor to the army, was the interpreter of the Jews before Louis XVI.

His mother was of Alsatian origin and the first cousin of Nobel Prize laureate Albert Schweitzer.

The first language of most of Alfred's elder brothers and sisters was German or one of the Alsatian dialects.

It is the location of the first Ohio newspaper, The Ohio Patriot, founded by an Alsatian immigrant, William D. Lepper.

In Castroville's first century, a visitor would be more likely to hear Alsatian — a soft, French-flecked dialect of German — than English spoken in the town's homes, stores and taverns.

* " Alsatian Cousin ", the first track on Morrissey's 1988 debut album, Viva Hate

Many early structures were spared: the Maison du Sel ( 1448 ), under its Alsatian pitched roof was the first hospital of the town.

In contrast to other Alsatian wines, Rieslings d ' Alsace are usually not meant to be drunk young, but many are still best in the first years.

The first American church was formed in Lewis County, New York in 1847 by Benedict Weyeneth ( 1819 – 1887 ), who had been sent by Froehlich at the request of Joseph Virkler, a Lewis County minister in an Alsatian Amish-Mennonite church.

In 1948 a new breed of police dog was used on the streets of London for the first time, the Alsatian Wolf Dog, later to be known as the Alsatian or German Shepherd Dog had arrived.

That his home was in Strassburg is supported by the fact that the earliest manuscripts of Tristan, dating from the first half of the 13th century, show features of Alemannic and specifically Alsatian dialect.

The site of his, the world ’ s first agricultural experimental station, is today a grand Alsatian grange and outbuilding complex in north-eastern France in urgent need of restoration ( see photo ).

Wilkinson, then a lieutenant commander on Royal Navy patrol duty, implemented the precursor of " dazzle " on SS Industry ; HMS Alsatian became the first Royal Navy to be dazzle painted in August 1917.

Constructed by Charles Godfrey Gumpel ( c. 1835-1921 ), an Alsatian manufacturer of artificial limbs, it took some 6 or 7 years to build and was first shown in 1878 at Gumpel's home in Leicester Square, London.

Unlike most of the terrain on the Alsatian Plain, the terrain the French I Corps fought in was hemmed in by woodlands and urban areas, and so ground was won only slowly in January after the first day of the attack.

From his first marriage, with an Alsatian, he has a son.

Her paternal grandfather, Pierre Louis-Dreyfus ( 1908-2011 ), was president of the Louis Dreyfus Group ; he was part of a prominent Alsatian Jewish family, and remained in France during World War II, fighting as a cavalry officer and later in the French Resistance.

Matthis, as an Alsatian, had been conscripted into the German army during the First World War but in 1916 had deserted from the German army ( with a large amount of cash ) while on a mission to buy trucks in Switzerland, and had then joined the French army.

Oaked Sauvignon blanc, Alsatian wines, Albarino, White Bordeaux ( Semillon ), White Burgundy, Rhone whites ( Viognier, Roussanne, Marsanne ), Tamaioasa Romaneasca and New World Chardonnay

In Alsace, France, a longtime German-speaking region, German and Alsatian, the native Germanic dialect, all but disappeared as useful languages after a period of being banned by the French government after the First World War and the Second World War.

In November 2004, at the age of 106, he met Charles Kuentz, a 107-year-old Alsatian veteran who had fought on the German side at the battlefield of Passchendaele ( and served on the French side in World War II ).

The Duc de Magenta served as Governor-General of Algeria from 1 September 1864, returning at the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War, during which he led an Alsatian army unit ( although attrition throughout the war led to men from other areas being added to this ).

Alsatian ( German ) versions of La Fontaine appeared in 1879 after the region was ceded following the Franco-Prussian War.

The narrator is an Alsatian serving with the French Army, and he has the same name ( Berger ) that Malraux himself was later to use in the Resistance ; ;

Schweitzer's home language was an Alsatian dialect of German.

He was born in Paris to Alsatian agnostic Jewish parents who fled the annexation of Alsace-Lorraine to Germany.

An assimilated Alsatian Jew from an academic family in Paris, he was deeply affected in his youth by the Dreyfus Affair.

Schickele was born in Ames, Iowa, to Alsatian immigrant parents, and brought up in Washington, D. C., and Fargo, North Dakota, where he studied composition with Sigvald Thompson.

Like most of France's regional languages ( such as Breton, Provençal and Alsatian ) Lorraine Franconian was largely replaced by French with the advent of mandatory public schooling in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Her mother was Amélie Marie Celeste Miltenberger, an architect's daughter, of French Alsatian descent ; her family had built three interconnected Miltenberger mansions on Rue Royale.

The nearby city of Castroville was founded by French ( Alsatian ) settlers.

In 1949, Koussevitzky was succeeded by the Alsatian conductor Charles Munch.

Jean Arp / Hans Arp ( 16 September 1886 – 7 June 1966 ) was a German-French, or Alsatian, sculptor, painter, poet and abstract artist in other media such as torn and pasted paper.

This expedition was commissioned by Alan Coren for the magazine Punch, the other members of the party being cartoonist Merrily Harpur and a toy Alsatian to represent Montmorency, the dog in the original story.

Natzweiler-Struthof was a German concentration camp located in the Vosges Mountains close to the Alsatian village of Natzwiller ( German Natzweiler ) in France, and the town of Schirmeck, about 50 km south west from the city of Strasbourg.

Suspicion seems to have fallen on Dreyfus mainly because he was an outsider as both a Jew and an Alsatian.

Henri Giraud was born in Paris, of Alsatian descent.

Born at Darmstadt, on the day of Waterloo, Ludwig von der Tann was descended from the old family of von der Tann, which had branches in Bavaria, the Alsace and the Rhine provinces, and attached his mother's name ( she being the daughter of an Alsatian nobleman, Freiherr von Rathsamhausen ) to his father's in 1868 by licence of the king of Bavaria.

Laurent Schwartz comes from a Jewish family of Alsatian origin, with a strong scientific background: his father is a well-known surgeon, his uncle Robert Debré ( who contributed to the creation of UNICEF ) is a famous pediatrician, and his great-uncle-in-law, Jacques Hadamard, was a famous mathematician.

According to his classification, which was not necessarily reliable, Corsican and Alsatian were described as " highly degenerate " ( très-dégénérés ) forms of Italian and German while Occitan was decomposed into a variety of syntactically loose local remnants of the language of troubadours with no intelligibility among them, and had to be abandoned in favour of the language of the capital.