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In The Last Lesson, name the countries who were fighting, and describe the content of the bulletin board.
In The Last Lesson, name the countries who were fighting, and describe the content of the bulletin board.
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In The Last Lesson, the two countries that were fighting were France and Germany. The bulletin board displayed an announcement in which the German language had been made compulsory in the schools of Alsace and Lorraine, which had been taken over by Germany. This bulletin was a reminder of the political shift in these regions.
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