separating the two neighbouring sister nations.

Our part in this work is a modest one. Taking at random a certain number
of _facts_, we have grouped them under different headings to make
perusal easier for the reader. To indicate the references would have
been impossible. Each line would have required a foot-note; the notes
would have been as long as the text, and both the length of, and the
cost of producing this pamphlet would have been doubled.

It is enough to state that there is not a single fact published here
that cannot be verified by our readers in one or other of the documents
already referred to. Nothing but facts are set down, absolute bare
facts, and it is for the reader to form his own conclusions. When he has
studied these "samples," and begins by means of them to learn the truth,
then, and only then, will he have the right to choose, according to his
conscience, between remembrance and oblivion, between pardon and
punishment.

L. MIRMAN, Prefect of Meurthe-et-Moselle.

G. SIMON, Mayor of Nancy.

G. KELLER, Mayor of Luneville.


FOOTNOTES:

[1] The members of this Commission were MM. G. Payelle (Premier
Président de la Cour des Comptes), A. Mollard (Ministre
Plénipotentiaire), G. Maringer (Conseiller d'État), E. Paillot