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Originally Posted by The Dear Leader
Those yellow limestone facades...  |
mm, possibly something distinctive of some local quarries. I find that yellow color warmer than what you usually find in much of the country. For example, the other large town of Lorraine, Nancy mostly shows the usual pale stone found in Paris, Bordeaux and elsewhere. Like some of what you're showing of Strasbourg on these pictures. I think you'd be pleased at the bit of Art Nouveau (Jugendstil) architecture in Nancy by the way.
While the Alsatian economy remains healthy, currently one of the most vibrant in the country, Lorraine has been struggling from the loss of older industries. Their situation in that respect is much like that of the northern most French-speaking regions at the moment, Nord-Pas-de-Calais in France and Wallonia on the other side of the border to Belgium. We've often been too static, to be honest. It's been a huge awkward mistake to try keep up older industries instead of further developing some new and more advanced ones. There's no actual disaster however, but I think people in Lorraine are worried about future for now, cause a bunch of their smaller towns suffered from relocations and deindustrialization.
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