In Elsass they were not so fortunate as in Baden, many persons being executed on suspicion.
It was at once decided that the king must move on Elsass to defend his threatened provinces.
Alsace henceforth must be written Elsass, and the devastated province called Lothringen was never again to be written Lorraine.
He was ordered with his troop to Elsass; he slipped away from his watchers and threw himself into Switzerland.
