1.Kennedy, The Rise of the Anglo-German Antagonism, p. 23.
2.Quoted in Kennedy, The Rise of the Anglo-German Antagonism, p. 23.
3.Joll, p. 11.
4.http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~jihazel/pol116/annexation.html.
5.La déclaration des députés d’Alsace et de Lorraine déposée le 1er mars 1871, http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/histoire/deputes-protestataires.asp.
6.Kennedy, p. 129.
7.Quoted in Keiger, p. 9.
8.Keiger, p. 15.
9.Ibid., p. 8.
10.Keiger, p. 10.
11.Quoted in Keiger, p. 10.
12.Ibid., p. 15.
13.Ibid., p. 13.
14.‘The Franco-Russian Alliance Military Convention — August 18, 1892’ , Yale Law School,The Avalon Project: http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/frrumil.asp.
15.Ibid.