Lexicographical Neighbors of Optants
Literary usage of Optants
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Alsace-Lorraine: A Study in Conquest: 1913 by David Starr Jordan (1916)
"After the treaty of Frankfort, "the optants," "those who chose to remain French,"
... After the original "optants" or emigrants followed later about as many ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"Meanwhile the Danish " optants," disappointed of their hopes, had begun to stream
back over the frontier into Schleswig. By doing so they lost, ..."
3. The American Journal of International Law by American Society of International Law (1907)
"Treaty concluded respecting the optants in Schleswig. ... By the present treaty,
Denmark will not refuse the children of Schleswig optants who have not ..."
4. Denmark and Sweden: With Iceland and Finland by Jón Stefánsson (1917)
"The children and descendants of Danish optants were to have the right to acquire
Prussian ... Thus there will be no optants after the present generation. ..."
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