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La Tache Noire

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Original – La Tache Noire by Albert Bettannier, painted in 1887 depicting French students being taught about the lost provinces of Alsace-Lorraine, taken by Germany in 1871.

Reason

good quality and EV

Articles in which this image appears

Albert Bettannier, Alsace-Lorraine, French–German enmity, French Third Republic, Revanchism, Nationalism, Irredentism

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings

Creator

Albert Bettannier

• Support as nominator – Andrei (talk) 08:17, 20 April 2021 (UTC)
• Support well used. Charlesjsharp (talk) 10:24, 20 April 2021 (UTC)
• Support --Janke | Talk 10:35, 20 April 2021 (UTC)
• Support although oddly the painting conveys the opposite message as intended. (t · c) buidhe 08:11, 21 April 2021 (UTC)
• Support TheFreeWorld (talk) 19:21, 21 April 2021 (UTC)

Promoted File:The Geography Lesson or "The Black Spot".jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 09:23, 30 April 2021 (UTC)