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The drawings are someone inconsistent (no doubt drawn quickly by news artists based on hearsay), but it appears that the border runs along the length of the road, between the road (France) and the raised railroad embankment (Germany). Thus stepping off the edge of the road would be to cross from France to Germany. Green Cardamom (talk) 15:01, 25 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I thought I would try to clarify this but it may not be easy. This article has "He walked briskly on the road leading from Nancy (France) to Metz (then in Lothringen, German Empire)."
The file:Bezirk Lothringen.jpg map shows the situation at the time. I doubt Schnaebelé walked the entire distance as the towns are 64 km (40 miles) apart. There was a railroad from Nancy to Pagny-sur-Moselle (shown as Pagny on the map) and Schnaebelé would then would be 3km from the border. What I can't find is a road alongside a railroad track that's on the border. The Moselle river seems to defined the border in that area.
I suspect if someone can locate a map of Metz region in 1887 that it could be used with this article.
I've restored the per-sentence/fact inline citations. In a normal static document it would be silly and overkill, the citation is only needed once at the end. But on Wikipedia there are a number of situations that require it. 1) future editors may not know where the sentence/fact is cited from and add a "citation needed" tag. 2) Future editors may add new material and/or move material around, thus making it impossible to track down where the sentence/fact was originally sourced too. Green Cardamom (talk) 02:31, 28 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Although this article is titled with the man's name, suggesting it's a biography, actual biographical details are very scanty (and, until I moved them, appeared at the end of the article, almost as an afterthought). Far more of the text is given to possible reasons for the incident and even the subsequent doings of Gen. Boulanger. As a result, it seems to me that this article might better be titled "Schnaebelé Incident" or something like that—it really isn't about the man. --Piledhigheranddeeper (talk) 20:47, 28 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
