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==History== | ==History== | ||
The department of the Vosges is one of the 83 departments created during the French Revolution on March 4 | The department of the Vosges is one of the 83 departments created during the French Revolution on March 4 1790. | ||
In 1794 Vosges was the site of a major battle between the forces of Revolutionary France and the Allied Coalition. | |||
The Place des Vosges in Paris was so renamed in 1799 when the department became the first to pay the new Revolutionary taxes. | |||
After the French defeat in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1871, 4% of the Vosges department in the extreme northeast of the department was annexed to the German Empire by the Treaty of Frankfurt on the ground that the people there spoke Germanic dialects. | |||
In 1919, with the allied victory in the World War I, Alsace-Lorraine was returned to France by Germany at the Treaty of Versailles.<br> | |||
[https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vosges_(d%C3%A9partement) Wikipedia] | |||
==Localities (Communes)== | ==Localities (Communes)== | ||