item: #1 of 5
          id: 18670
      author: Omond, George W. T. (George William Thomson)
       title: Bruges and West Flanders
        date: None
       words: 34403
      flesch: 66
     summary: Victoria, Queen, at Bruges Walburge, Ste., Church of, at Bruges; at Furnes Walcheren Waterloo, Battle of Weavers, Guild of Wenduyne Westcapelle Westende, village; Plage William, Bishop of Ancona York, Duke of, at Bruges _et seq._ Ypres; field preaching near; churches sacked; taken by Parma; by the Protestants; Place du Musée; besieged by Louis XIV.; fortified by Vauban; ceded to France; described by Vauban in 1689; taken by the French in 1794; during the Hundred Days; end of military history; Grand Place and Cloth Hall; monopoly of weaving linen; manages with Bruges the Hanseatic League in Flanders; the Nieuwerck; riots at; siege of, by English _et seq._; John of Ypres describes early Bruges Yser Zwijn Zuyder Zee Thus the boundaries of early Bruges can easily be traced; but nothing remains of the ancient buildings, though we read of a warehouse, booths, and a prison, besides the dwelling-houses of the townsfolk.
    keywords: baldwin; battle; belfry; blood; bourg; bruges; century; chapter; charles; church; coast; country; day; days; des; dunes; england; english; flanders; flemish; footnote; france; french; furnes; great; history; holy; houses; hôtel; illustration; king; market; men; nieuport; people; place; round; sea; streets; time; town; ville; west; years; ypres
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        item: #2 of 5
          id: 28288
      author: Edwards, George Wharton
       title: Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders
        date: None
       words: 36370
      flesch: 68
     summary: From below the eye was carried upward by range upon range of exquisite Gothic detail to the four great open-work, gilded, clock discs, through which one could dimly see the beautiful, open-pointed lancets behind which on great beams hung the carillon bells, row upon row. The stalls of the choir, in two banks or ranges, twenty-seven above, twenty-four below, bore the date of 1598, and the signature of d'Urbain Taillebert, a native sculptor of great merit, who also carved the great _Jube_ of Dixmude (see drawing).
    keywords: antwerp; belfry; belgium; bell; black; brussels; cathedral; century; church; country; courtrai; day; days; face; flanders; flemish; french; gothic; grand; green; hall; hand; houses; hôtel; illustration; jean; life; louvain; malines; market; martin; men; painter; people; place; quaint; river; son; sort; square; stone; streets; time; tower; town; van; ville; walls; work; years; ypres
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        item: #3 of 5
          id: 37668
      author: Coster, Charles de
       title: Flemish Legends
        date: None
       words: 54746
      flesch: 86
     summary: Ah, 'tis ale of fair repute throughout the land, this ale, fit for kings or for good devils like yourself! Yes, said the devil, those were good times.
    keywords: anne; brother; coming; day; devil; drink; gans; god; good; halewyn; head; heart; house; jesus; lady; lord; magtelt; maid; man; master; men; mie; miserable; night; roel; saying; sir; smetse; smith; tell; thee; thou; thy; time; tis; voice; way; wife
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        item: #4 of 5
          id: 41830
      author: Vose, Edward Neville
       title: The Spell of Flanders An Outline of the History, Legends and Art of Belgium's Famous Northern Provinces
        date: None
       words: 113278
      flesch: 65
     summary: At Antwerp, Ghent, Bruges and many other famous Flemish cities the Germans appear to have made every effort to avoid wanton destruction and preserve the most notable historic edifices. Arnulph the Great, strengthens Flemish cities, 35; founds St. Donatian's at Bruges, 35. Arras, Treaty of 1191, 189; Treaty of 1435, 222-223; tapestry workers organised, 230; tapestries of, 278-279; starting point otapestry weaving, 385. Artois, Count of, besieges Furnes, 90; leads French at Battle of the Spurs, 157; death, 159; 160; County of Artois ceded to France, 189. Audenaerde, tapestries, 5; guildsmen from at Battle of the Spurs, 157; 202; siege of by Philip Van Artevelde, 208; besieged bPhilip the Bold, 218; besieged by men from Ghent, 225; Louis XI drives tapestry weavers from Arras to, 278; tapestry ateliers specialise in pastoral scenes, 279; country around, described, 367-368; monument to volunteers who died in Mexico, 369-370; description of Hotel de Ville, 370-376; birthplace of Margaret of Parma, 377; communal museum in Hotel de Ville, 381-382; Cloth Hall, 382-383; church of Ste. Walburge, 383-385; tapestry weaving at, 385-387; church of Notre Dame de Pamela, 387-389; Château de Bourgogne, 390; many religious institutions of, 390; sieges and battles of the past, 391-392; 413. Austria, War of the Austrian Succession, 250; Austrian troops at Fontenoy, 251; arms of, at Audenaerde, 373; Flanders during Warof the Austrian Succession, 458; under Austrian Empire, 458-459. Auxerre, marriage of Baldwin I and Judith in 863, 26.
    keywords: antwerp; army; art; artist; audenaerde; baldwin; battle; belfry; belgian; belgium; bold; bruges; brussels; burghers; burgundy; castle; cathedral; centuries; century; chapel; charles; church; cities; city; count; country; dame; day; days; death; des; doubt; duke; edifice; emperor; england; english; europe; fact; feet; fine; flanders; flemish; france; french; ghent; good; guild; half; hall; history; hotel; houses; illustration; interest; jean; john; king; life; little; louis; malines; margaret; men; museum; new; notre; painter; painting; people; period; philip; pictures; place; plantin; present; professor; river; room; rubens; streets; structure; time; tournai; tower; town; van; ville; visit; walls; war; way; work; world; years; ypres
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        item: #5 of 5
          id: 46960
      author: Boschère, Jean de
       title: Beasts & Men Folk Tales Collected in Flanders and Illustrated by Jean de Bosschère
        date: None
       words: 42366
      flesch: 89
     summary: Bring those first! I will bring everything in good time, said Reynard; trust me for that. In good time Bellyn returned to the Court and handed to the astonished King the bag which Reynard had sent.
    keywords: bear; birds; bruin; cat; cock; day; dog; eyes; fox; friend; giant; good; head; house; illustration; king; man; peasant; place; poor; reynard; road; sponsken; time; tree; way; wolf; world
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