Today we are leaving the Doubs department of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region and "gliding" over to the Alsace department of the Grand Est region. The administrative center is Strasbourg.
Grand Est is a French region that was created in 2016 from the areas of the previous regions of Alsace, Lorraine and Champagne-Ardenne.
Personalities born in Alsace:
Marcel Mangel (Marcel Marceau)
1923 - 2007, actor and mime, clown "Bip"
Albert Schweitzer 1875 - 1965, Protestant theologian, doctor, missionary doctor, philosopher and musician, Nobel Peace Prize winner
Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi 1834 - 1904, sculptor, design and inauguration of the Statue of Liberty on Liberty Island off New York
Marie Tussaud (Madame Tussaud) 1761 - 1850, wax artist and founder of the wax sculpture museum named after her