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BELGIUM

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THIS BOOK IS ALSO PUBLISHED IN THREE SEPARATE PARTS

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The Hôtel de Ville, a corner of the Grande Place, showing La Maison des Brasseurs, La Maison du Cygne, and La Maison de l'Étoile.]

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Painted by AMÉDÉE FORESTIER

Text by

GEORGE W. T. OMOND

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Contents

CHAPTER PAGE

I. THE MARKET-PLACE AND BELFRY OF BRUGES--EARLY HISTORY 3

II. BALDWIN BRAS-DE-FER--THE PLACE DU BOURG--MURDER OF
CHARLES THE GOOD 11

III. THE BÉGUINAGE--CHURCHES--THE RELIC OF THE HOLY BLOOD 23

IV. THE BRUGES MATINS--BATTLE OF THE GOLDEN SPURS 39

V. DAMME--THE SEA-FIGHT AT SLUIS--SPLENDOUR OF
BRUGES IN THE MIDDLE AGES--THE FALL AND LOSS OF TRADE 49

VI. 'BRUGES LA MORTE' 63

VII. THE PLAIN OF WEST FLANDERS--YPRES 83

VIII. FURNES--THE PROCESSION OF PENITENTS 109

IX. NIEUPORT--THE BATTLE OF THE DUNES 119

X. THE COAST OF FLANDERS 129

XI. COXYDE--THE SCENERY OF THE DUNES 151

XII. GHENT 163

XIII. THE DUKES OF BRABANT--THE JOYEUSE ENTRÉE--END
OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY 175 XIV. THE BOMBARDMENT
OF 1695--THE GRANDE PLACE--CHURCH OF STE. GUDULE
--CHARLES OF LORRAINE 195

XV. JOSEPH II AND THE REVOLUTION OF BRABANT 209

XVI. THE JACOBINS OF BRUSSELS--VISIT OF NAPOLEON--THE
HUNDRED DAYS 219

XVII. THE DUTCH GOVERNMENT--THE REVOLUTION OF 1830 233

XVIII. THE VICISSITUDES OF ANTWERP 243

XIX. THE PRINCIPALITY OF LIÉGE 273

XX. EARLY HISTORY OF LIÉGE--BISHOP NOTGER--THE
COURT OF PEACE 279

XXI. THE DUKES OF BURGUNDY--DESTRUCTION OF LIÉGE BY CHARLES
THE BOLD 295

XXII. THE WILD BOAR OF ARDENNES 313

XXIII. ÉRARD DE LA MARCK--THE PRINCIPALITY IN THE
SIXTEENTH CENTURY 325

XXIV. THE CHIROUX AND THE GRIGNOUX--THE TRAGIC BANQUET
OF WARFUSÉE 339

XXV. THE GAMING-TABLES AT SPA--THE FRENCH REVOLUTION--
ANNEXATION OF THE PRINCIPALITY 353

XXVI. LIÉGE AND THE VALLEY OF THE MEUSE IN MODERN
TIMES--BOUILLON 363

INDEX 377

List of Illustrations

1. Hôtel de Ville, Brussels (showing La Maison des Brasseurs,
La Maison du Cygne, and La Maison de l'Étoile) _Frontispiece_

FACING PAGE

2. A Corner of the Market on the Grande Place, Bruges 6

3. Bell-ringer playing a Chime 8

4. Porte d'Ostende, Bruges 10

5. Rue de l'Âne Aveugle (showing end of Town Hall and
Bridge connecting it with Palais de Justice), Bruges 14

6. Quai du Rosaire, Bruges 18

7. The Béguinage, Bruges 24

8. Quai des Marbriers, Bruges 38

9. A Flemish Young Woman 42

10. A Flemish Burgher 46

11. Quai du Miroir, Bruges 52

12. View of the Palais du Franc, Bruges 64

13. Maison du Pélican (Almshouse), Bruges 68

14. Vegetable Market, Bruges 78

15. The Flemish Plain 84

16. A Flemish Country Girl 86

17. Interior of a Farmhouse, Duinhoek 88

18. At the Kermesse, Adinkerque 92

19. A Farmsteading 96

20. Place du Musée (showing the top part of the Belfry), Ypres 98

21. Arcade under the Nieuwerk, Ypres 104

22. Grande Place and Belfry, Furnes 110

23. Peristyle of Town Hall and Palais de Justice, Furnes 112

24. Interior of Church, Nieuport 114

25. Tower of St. Nicholas, Furnes 116

26. In Ste. Walburge's Church, Furnes 118

27. A Fair Parishioner, Nieuport 120

28. Hall and Vicarage, Nieuport 122

29. The Quay, with Eel-boats and Landing-stages, Nieuport 124

30. The Town Hall, Nieuport 126

31. Church Porch (Evensong), Nieuport 128

32. A Stormy Evening: the Dunes 130

33. An Old Farmer 134

34. Interior of a Flemish Inn, La Panne 138

35. A Flemish Inn--Playing Skittles, La Panne 140

36. A Shrimper on Horseback, Coxyde 152

37. A Shrimper, Coxyde 154

38. Village and Canal, Adinkerque 156

39. An Old Lace-maker, Ghent 164

40. The Banquet Hall, Château des Comtes, Ghent 166

41. Béguinage de Mont St. Amand, Ghent 168

42. The Arrière Faucille (Achter Sikkel), Ghent 170

43. The Ruins of the Cloisters of the Abbey of St. Bavon, Ghent 172

44. Place de Brouckére, Brussels 176

45. Entrance to the Old Church of the Carmelites, Brussels 188

46. The Cathedral of Ste. Gudule, Brussels 200

47. Old House in the Grande Place, Brussels 216

48. Rue de Namur, Brussels 230

49. The Farm of La Belle Alliance, and the Mound surmounted
by the Belgian Lion, Waterloo 232

50. The Cathedral Chapel of St. Joseph, Antwerp 244

51. The Vieille Boucherie, Antwerp 246

52. Old Houses in the Rue de l'Empereur, Antwerp 248

53. Archway under the Vieille Boucherie, Antwerp 252

54. The Concierge of the Musée Plantin-Moretus, Antwerp 254

55. The Place Verte, Antwerp 260

56. The Musée Plantin-Moretus (the Arrière Boutique), Antwe 262

57. The Roadstead from the Tête de Flandre, Antwerp 266

58. The Château de Waulsort on the Meuse 274

59. Château de Walzin, in the Lesse Valley 276

60. The Episcopal Palace--Outer Court, Liége 280

61. Pont des Arches, Liége 284

62. Escalier de la Fontaine, Liége 286

63. The Hospital, Dinant 292

64. La Maison Curtius, Liége 296

65. Le Rocher Bayard, Dinant 302

66. Old House of the Quai de la Goffe, Liége 308

67. A Peasant Woman of the Ardennes 314

68. The River Sambre seen from the Pont de Sambre, Namur 318

69. La Gleize, a Village in the Ardennes 322

70. General View of Dinant 328

71. The Romanesque Church, Hastière 336

72. Le Perron Liégeois, Liége 340

73. La Vieille Boucherie, Liége 346

74. The Episcopal Palace--Inner Court, Liége 350

75. Pont du Prophète, Promenade Meyerbeer, Spa Woods 356

76. Pont de Jambes et Citadelle, Namur 364

77. Château de Bouillon, in the Semois Valley 368

_Sketch-map at the end of Volume._

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