Cour d'Alsace Lorraine

The Cour d'Alsace Lorraine at sixty-seven rue de Reuilly serves as a somber monument to a major geopolitical loss. Its name honors the Alsace and Lorraine regions, which France ceded to the German Empire following its defeat in the Franco-Prussian War of eighteen seventy. By naming this small, tucked-away space after the lost territory, the city memorialized a national grievance that persisted in the French consciousness for decades.