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French Wikipedia article.
Le Stift.
This is where I lived in 1960. My room was on the third floor, the
third window from the right, the one with the shutters closed.
When I lived in Strasbourg in 1960, the city had been in Germany for more than half of the previous hundred years. The everyday language of the city was the local Alemannic dialect, a form of Upper German very different from the standard High German taught in schools.
I found that in shops I was often addressed in Alsatian (I shall say "Woof, woof" before anyone else does!) and I soon became weary of asking people to repeat what they had said in French. So I learnt how to count in Alsatian and acquired some basic vocabulary, although I never really learnt the grammatical structure. However, all that has faded from my memory and I can hardly recall any of it.
St Paul's Church
Near the main University building there is a very fine 19th-century Gothic church in a beautiful setting. While on a smaller scale than the Cathedral, it is, to my mind, the more perfect building. And yes, you can have degrees of perfection!
St Paul's, Strasbourg by W V Jazzman
Trams
Back in 1960 they had little old trams built before World War II, but...
...these days they are planning double-decker monsters.
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