1. See, for example, Alon Confino, The Nation as Local Metaphor: Württemberg, Imperial Germany, and National Memory, 1871–1918 (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1997).
2. On the link between collective memory and geographic location, see Maurice Halbwachs, On Collective Memory (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992), especially “The Legendary Topography of the Gospels in the Holy Land,” 193–235.
3. Hans-Walter Herrmann, “Saarland—Grenzland,” GrenzenLos: Lebenswelten in der deutsch-französischen Region an Saar und Mosel seit 1840 (Saarbrücken: Historisches Museum Saar, 1998): 35–77.
4. Anne Sa’adah, Contemporary France: A Democratic Education (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003): 103. Schuman’s personal heritage includes Luxembourg, French, and German roots.
5. Claes H. de Vreese, Framing Europe: Television News and European Integration (Amsterdam: Aksant, 2003): 1.