ABSTRACT
Such sentiments, taken from an eleventh-century necrology of the chapter of Saint-Lambert de Liège, could equally refer to the ancient dual nature of Lorrainer identity, applicable both geographically and linguistically, to residents of the duchy of Lorraine, and psychologically, to the princes étrangers of the House of Lorraine, who, despite residency and naturalisation in France since the beginning of the sixteenth century, continued to base much of their identity on their ‘foreignness’.
