The ancestors of her Jewish mother, Jeanne Javal, originated from the small Alsatian town of Seppois-le-Bas.

Alsatian towns served as a refuge for rural populations.

The tall, narrow Alsatian bottle looks German, as the Alsatian towns and countryside do.

She was hidden by a family in central France during the war, and returned after liberation to her small Alsatian town near Strasbourg.

These three portals help distinguish the village from the majority of Alsatian towns by lending it a unique character.

IT was a peaceful Sunday morning in the Alsatian town of Barr.

Many buildings in the town are identical to actual buildings in the Alsatian town of Colmar, which Miyazaki acknowledged as the inspiration for its setting.

It is a proud old sagging galleon of a neighborhood, spared somehow from the tweeness that infects other Alsatian towns with similar gingerbread architecture.

After some grumbling they, in turn, repaired to a pleasant but less picturesque Alsatian town called Gerardmer (pronounced zhay-rard-MAY).

Schuré was the son of a doctor in the Alsatian town of Strasbourg.