Some Problems of the Peace Conference

Bibliographical Note

The history of the Left Bank is examined from various points of view by the Comité d’Etudes, i: L’Alsace-Lorraine et la frontière du Nord-est (1918). E. Babelon, Le Rhin dans l’histoire (Paris, 1916-17), is the fullest account from the point of view of the Rhine as the historical frontier of France. See also L. Madelin, in the Revue des deux Mondes, December 1, 1918; the pamphlets of Babelon, Driault, de Grailly, Milhaud, Stiénon, etc., issued in the same years; and the enquête published by the Libre Parole in February 1919. For a sane French criticism see Pfister, in Revue historique, cxxvi, pp. 334-338. A. Schulte, Frankreich und das linke Rheinufer (Stuttgart, 1918), is largely a critique of French writers.

For the important period 1794-1814 the best German accounts are C. T. Perthes, Politische Zustände und Personen in Deutschland zur Zeit der französichen Herrschaft (Bonn, 1862); and J. Hashagen, Das Rheinland und die französische Herrschaft (Bonn, 1908). An excellent French monograph is Ph. Sagnac, Le Rhin français pendant la Révolution et l’Empire (Paris, 1917). On Landau and Saarlouis, see Aulard, in Revue de Paris, March 15, 1919. J. Hansen (ed.), Die Rheinprovinz 1815-1915 (Bonn, 1917), is a comprehensive treatment of the Prussian period, with brief bibliographies. For a sketch of economic conditions, see Yves Guyot, La province rhénane et la Westphalie (Paris, 1915). On the Palatinate, see H. Schreibmüller, Bayern und die Pfalz, 1816-1916 (Kaiserslautern, 1916).

The French side of the negotiations respecting the ‘guarantees’ on the Left Bank is given by A. Tardieu, in L’Illustration, February 14, 1920. Nothing has as yet been published by the British or American negotiators.

The commerce of the Rhine is well studied by E. J. Clapp, The Navigable Rhine (Boston, 1911). Cf. P. Vidal de la Blache, La France de l’Est (Paris, 1917); and the studies of de Martonne and Gallois in the volume of the Comité d’Etudes. For a Swiss view of the problem, see V. S. Rualens-Marlier, Le Rhin libre (Paris and Neuchâtel, 1916).

In the Saar valley the events of 1814-15 are narrated by A. Ruppersberg, Geschichte der Stadt Saarbrücken (Saarbrücken, 1913). Böcking’s correspondence will be found, with other important material, in A. Krohn, Beiträge zur Geschichte der Saargegend, in Mitteilungen des historischen Vereins für die Saargegend, viii (1901). Cf. F. Engerand, L’Allemagne et le fer (Paris, 1916), ch. 2. For a general sketch, see E. Babelon, Sarrelouis et Sarrebruck (Paris, 1918). Of the German literature touching this part of the treaty examples are F. Meinecke, Geschichte der linksrheinischen Gebietsfragen, with maps; and the articles in Die Woche, March 8, 1919.

On the Saar coal field, see The Coal Resources of the World (Toronto, 1913); the Atlas of Mineral Resources published by the U. S. Geological Survey; the study of Gallois, in Travaux du Comité d’Etudes, i, and Annales de géographie, July 15, 1919; E. de Margerie, in Enquête sur les richesses minérales du Nord-est de la France et des régions voisines, with maps (Paris, 1918); Friedrich A. Schmidt, Der Saarkohlenbergbau in Lothringen (Strasburg diss., 1914); and the local geological surveys and mining reports. On the growth of manufactures, see J. Kollmann, Die Grossindustrie des Saargebiets (Stuttgart, 1911).

An admirable presentation of the historical geography of the Left Bank will be found in the Geschichtlicher Atlas der Rheinprovinz (Bonn, 1898-). For the frontiers of 1814 and 1815, see the Atlas of the Comité d’Etudes.