‘Schuman at the 1950 edition of the “Röhndorfer Süßling”. Adenauer: Mariandl-andl-andl.’ On 14 January 1950, as French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman visits the Federal Republic of Germany, German cartoonist Ernst Maria Lang paints an idyllic picture of relations between France and Germany. At the heart of Adenauer’s wine-growing home village of Rhöndorf, on the slopes of the Siebengebirge, a mountain range south of Bonn on the right bank of the Rhine, Robert Schuman, wine bottle in hand, and Chancellor Adenauer, playing the mandolin, enjoy the company of a young Marianne wearing a Phrygian cap. This visit would in reality be marked by tensions between France and the FRG over the settlement of the question of the Saar territory.