Strasbourg is the seat of one of the two European Parliaments (the other being in Brussels), the European Ombudsman, the Eurocorps, as well as the Council of Europe with its European Court of Human Rights, its European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines and its European Audiovisual Observatory.
Strasbourg's bicultural heritage has owed the city to be the seat of the Franco-German TV channel Arte (along with Baden-Baden).
Strasbourg was a major commercial city on the Rhine, and grew rich on the trade (and taxes on) of textiles, cereals, glass, furs, silk, spices, but also Alsatian wine, reknowned in all the Empire and as far as England and Scandinavia.
It appears to be completely forgotten that the last siege carried on previous to this war, that of Sebastopol, required eleven months of open trenches before the place was reduced.
Strasbourg was loosely invested on the 10th of August, closely about the 20th, bombarded from the 23rd to the 28th, and yet the regular siege began on the 29th only.
This regular siege dates from the opening of the first parallel, a trench with the earth thrown up on the side towards the fortress, so as to hide and shelter the men passing through it.
It appears to be completely forgotten that the last siege carried on previous to this war, that of Sebastopol, required eleven months of open trenches before the place was reduced.
Strasbourg was loosely invested on the 10th of August, closely about the 20th, bombarded from the 23rd to the 28th, and yet the regular siege began on the 29th only.
This regular siege dates from the opening of the first parallel, a trench with the earth thrown up on the side towards the fortress, so as to hide and shelter the men passing through it.
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Strasbourg (Alsatian, Strossburi; German, Strassburg) is located in the strategical crossroad between the Romanic and Germanic areas, materialized by the Rhine river.
On the 24 April 1792, the first constitutional mayor of Strasbourg, Frédéric de Dietrich, gave a dinner for the volunteers of the Rhine Army, and asked the officer Rouget de l'Isle to write a song to celebrate the event.
Strasbourg was once again occupied by Germany from 1940 to the 25 November 1944.
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Depuis 1570, Strasbourg célèbre les fêtes de fin d'années autour de son traditionnel Marché de Noël.
C'est pourquoi, le Maire de Strasbourg et le Président de la Communauté urbaine ont ouvert un large débat avec les habitants en mai, juin et juillet dernier.
Strasbourg se prépare à accueillir le TGV dans une ville en mouvement : réaménagement de la gare historique, grands projets d'aménagement, mobilisation de tous les secteurs de la vie strasbourgeoise …
The emperor Wilhelm I enacted Strasbourg as capital of the Alsace-Lorraine territory
If the major part of these buildings are located in the imperial district, a half-dozen of art nouveau edifices are downtown.
(2) During the siege of Strasbourg (8/14 - 9/27/1870) around 1000 peoples died and (among others) the city library burned (one of the most ancient in France), the Fine-Arts Museum, set fire to the Cathedral, the hospital, the railway station, the prefecture.
There, instead of receiving the medicines urgently requested by the Strasbourg physicians, he was given the runaround.
Living through the siege among the besiegers, he worried that his congregation would think he had left them in the lurch in those difficult times of his own free will.
When for a while milk was very scarce after the siege of Strasbourg, he took his milk to a poor old woman every morning.
The best examples come from the Rathaus (city hall), which has numerous tableaus on its facades: myths and histories of antiquity and the confederation.
The first thing we saw, just outside the train station, was Auguste Bartholdi’s The Swiss coming to the aid of Strasbourg during the Siege of 1870.
Eventually I remembered that iconoclasm had been more extensive and violent in Basel than in other German cities during the Reformation (it was comparatively tame in Strasbourg: mayor Jacob Sturm made iconoclasm illegal despite reform).
A purple postmark was used which reads "Vol par Hélicoptère / Luxembourg-Strasbourg / 31-V-52" and includes a small drawing of a helicopter over the Adolphe Bridge.
This is the return leg of the helicopter flight described above and is postmarked "Premier Jour / Strasbourg / Siège du Conseil de l'Europe / 31 mai 1952".
The cachet on the card shows a helicopter and aerial views of Luxembourg and Strasbourg.
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The magnificent library of Strasbourg was burnt by the shells of the German Army in 1870.
Then disappeared for ever, together with other unique documents, the original records of the famous law-suits between Gutenberg, one of the first Printers, and his partners, upon the right understanding of which depends the claim of Gutenberg to the invention of the Art.
Even a millionaire will ease his toils, lengthen his life, and add a hundred per cent.
Une association animée à son origine par la congrégation religieuse des Diaconesses de Bethesda Strasbourg, laquelle continue à la soutenir et à l'inspirer dans la mesure de ses forces et de ses moyens.
Pour cette raison, le Diaconat Bethesda n'oeuvre pas dans l'isolement mais s'efforce de vivre en réseaux et en partenariat.
There's something about her which reminds me a little of you," and it did not seem to him peculiar that he had put it thus, instead of saying: "There's something about you which reminds me a little of her." Ah!
Holly, followed closely by her elderly French governess, whose digestion had been ruined twenty-two years ago in the siege of Strasbourg, came rushing towards them from under the oak tree.
She stopped about a dozen yards away, to pat Balthasar and pretend that this was all she had in her mind.
