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Alsace–Lorraine
, now known as Alsace–Moselle, is a historical region in modern-day France. It was created by the
German Empire
in 1871, after it had seized the region from France in the
Franco-Prussian War
with the
Treaty of Frankfurt
and forced France to pay an
indemnity
of five billion francs. Anger in the
French Third Republic
about the loss of the territory was one of the
contributing factors that led to World War I
, and the region reverted to France in 1918 as part of the
Treaty of Versailles
and Germany's defeat in the war. This
oil-on-canvas painting
, titled
The Geography Lesson
or
The Black Spot
, was painted around 1887 by
Albert Bettannier
. It depicts a school teacher showing pupils a map of France in which Alsace–Lorraine is coloured black, portraying French resentment of the loss of the region to Germany. The painting is in the collection of the
German Historical Museum
in Berlin.
Painting credit:
Albert Bettannier
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