Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-07-06

\ WHICH, was lClt "
a France by the Treaty Of
Frankfort In 1871, and the
chief city behind the sector which the
American troops took over from the
Nine. Marie de Perrott in the New
York Tribune. Hlustrious at the time
Of the dukes Of Burgundy, their last
scion, Charles the Eold, came to a mis-
cradle end there. Thence the three
last "Roman emperors'' went to be
crowned in Vienna. In 1914 another
German emperor. Kaiser Wilhelm II,
believed that Nancy would fall three
days after the hostilities began and,
according to his habit, was already
dressed for tlla rart-had his face
made up, like the actor he is, for tri-
urnphant entry. Eut he had reckoned
without the defense Of the Grand
Couronne, and above all without the
indOmitable will Of nation.
AS l write I see once again before
,ne the panorama know so well. From
the Plateau Hayc there lies before me
a view of Il long stretch of close roofs,
towers, spires. churches. high iron
fr;,meworlSs. This is Nancy itself.
united to its suburbs by secluded,
shaded avenues. In the distance
tparliles the lake CT the Seille. which
forms a boundary, for it is German
today. To my right glidcs softly the
hloselle, no longer Gashing impetuous-
~ through rough mountains and thick
woods, but as far As Metz and Co.
hlcnz bordered by vineyards, already
so famous in the Rome of old, where
big clusters of purple or golden grapes
SELECT in the water their color and
light Close by the small River Anne
zulc. a tributary Of the Meurthe, is
dominated by the abrupt hill Of
finance and the woods OF ChampenOux,
where so many of our brave dead are
lying, for this was the theater Of the
first German attack in 1914.
Burial Place of Dukes.
All those who have visited Nancy
before 1914 will remember its churches
and public monuments. The ducal
chapel, one OF the gems of the worlds
architecture, has been. ever since the
eleventh century. the burial place of
those proud rivals of the kings of
France. the dukes Of Burgundy, whose
great ambition WAS to become rulers
themselves and make of France and
Belgium one kingdom. The great
E:cnch revolution dragged their bodies
from their ieaden collins to put them
into the graveyard. but the restoration
snate place.
The last 40 years and the anntxa-
ton Of Alsace-Lorrainc by Germany
have bestowed upon Nancy, which was
left to us, great Importance. 1t has
taken moreover literary cachet, us
well rs one Of elegance, and become
thc intellectual brain and the center of
spiritual influence of eastern France.
It's faculties. grouped in independent
bodies, deserve their honorary title
and are real universities, attracting
students from ali parts Of the world.
AS to the professors. their renown far
SURPRISES the narrow boundaries of
provincial town, Ia province, as we dis
painfully call AL that does not belong
to Paris.
It's industries. also. until the great
war. were in Il most hourishing state;
most of the manufacturers and work
men of Metz and StrasbOurg took up
their abode here after 1871. proudly
styling themselves cmigres, to show
that they had left their homes to avoid
German rule, bringing with their skill
and activity great prosperity to the
former capital of lorraine. l remem-