Alsace-Lorraine’s Provincial Assembly in Strasbourg (c. 1874) This obviously retouched photographic montage shows the provincial assembly [Landesausschuss] of Alsace-Lorraine in Strasbourg. Seated at the government benches at the right are (from front to back): President Dr. Schlumberger, Baron Charpentier, State Secretary von Hoffmann, Under-State Secretary Dr. Ledderhose, and Dr. von Meyr.