This pamphlet was written in reaction to the First Treaty of Paris (11 April 1814), which left France (then under Louis XVIII) in its territorial position of 1792. Arndt’s disgust at this arrangement was expressed in what is probably his most vehement pamphlet, accusing the French of everything immoral (and in the process equating them with the equally repugnant Jews), including such phobic imputations as the alleged intention to abduct maidens from the occupied German territories and forcibly marry them to Frenchmen. Against this anti-French xenophbia Arndt ethnocentrically extolls the domestic virtues of the Germans, who should claim their full territorial plenitude and form a properly ordered German society.