Where are our historians? How could we miss the point that the territory all the way to the Rhine River has been controlled by the French on and off for some very significant periods during the last 1000 years! Fealty to the French sovereign by counts in the Eifel was common durning the Crusades. The French revolution reached all the way to Koblenz. Napolean rewrote the map of the area and legislative control. Why not French? Don Kilburg