The Rhine cisis and the war of verses

The Rhine crisis is a little-known episode in the opposition between France and Germany in the 1840s, because unlike the 1870 war, only regiments of poets clashed. While the poems written by Lamartine and Musset are largely forgotten on the French side, the German poems and songs have survived. They mark an important stage in the rise of nationalism, and shed new light on the continuing misunderstandings between France and Germany.

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