Le Trésor .... diaprés René Bazin

Conte Patriotique As a resuit of the Treaty of Peace after the Franco- Prussian War, Alsace and Lorraine, two French provinces west of the Rhine, were ceded to Germany. Many thousands left thèse provinces to take up their life in France, but many, many more remained in the land of their fathers. They and their children were compelled to hide deep down in their hearts tneir love for their mother country, and, like the fiag in this story, they awaited the retum of their beloved France.