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The chronicler Alberic of Trois-Fontaines, who covered the years 1227 to 1241, was a monk here. The abbey's isolated site protected it from armed attack. It fell however into the hands of commendatory abbots in 1536. Between 1716 and 1741, the abbot in commendam was Pierre Guérin de Tencin, French ambassador in Rome, who was made a cardinal in ...
The village was completely destroyed during the Thirty Years War and then repopulated in the 17th and 18th centuries by financial incentive (tax exemption for those who rebuilt a ruined house). Troisfontaines being at that time German-speaking, the efforts of repopulation focused on attracting German-speaking populations, such as Swiss ...
Alberic was likely from a noble Liège family which could afford a good education for him. He became a monk of Trois-Fontaines Abbey no later than 1230. In 1232, Alberic began his chronicle Chronica Albrici Monachi Trium Fontium and continued working on it until at least 1251 since he used a history by Gilles of Orval Gesta episcoporum Leodiensium ("Deeds of the Bishops of Liège").
This region saw much fighting in World War I (1914–1918) and many battles, of which arguably the most important were the First Battle of the Marne and the Second Battle of the Marne. The First Battle of the Marne, also known as the Miracle of the Marne , was fought between 5 and 12 September 1914.
World War II was, in part, a continuation of the power struggle never fully resolved by World War I. Furthermore, it was common for Germans in the 1930s to justify acts of aggression due to perceived injustices imposed by the victors of World War I. [22] [23] [24] American historian William Rubinstein wrote that:
Graph of global conflict deaths from 1900 to 1944 from various sources. This is a list of wars that began between 1900 and 1944.. This period saw the outbreak of World War I (1914–1918) and World War II (1939–1945), which are among the deadliest conflicts in human history, with many of the world's great powers partaking in total war and some partaking in genocides.
Before World War II, the events of 1914–1918 were generally known as the Great War or simply the World War. [1] In August 1914, the magazine The Independent wrote "This is the Great War. It names itself". [2] In October 1914, the Canadian magazine Maclean's similarly wrote, "Some wars name themselves. This is the Great War."
German soldiers resting during the occupation of the town of Hautmont. German occupation of the city hall (hôtel de ville) of Caudry, France, during World War I.. The German occupation of north-east France refers to the period in which French territory, mostly along the border with Belgium and Luxembourg, was under military occupation by the German Empire during World War I.