Phalsbourg, or PFALZBURG, a town of Lorraine, stands on the north-west shoulder of the Vosges, 25 miles NW. of Strasburg. It was fortified by Vauban in 1680; invested, but not taken, by the Allies in 1814-15; and bombarded and taken by the Germans in 1870, after which they razed the fortifications. It was the birthplace of Erckmann, and is widely known through Le Blocus and others of the Erckmann-Chatrian novels. Pop. 3680.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 105
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