Brussels: A Cultural and Literary HistoryBrussels took more than 1000 years to become the capital of the Duchy of Brabant, of Burgundy and from 1830 the capital of Belgium. This text explores a city and country in perpetual search for an identity, still showing scars of the Counter-Reformation, peopled by the Spaniards of the North. |
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Anderlecht Antwerp Art Nouveau Avenue Louise battle Beaux Arts became beer Belgian Belgique Belgium Boulevard Brel British Brueghel Brussels Bruxelles Bruxellois building built café called canal capital Catholic century Charles Charlotte Chaussée church city walls city's communes Coudenberg culture demolished dialect dukes of Brabant Dutch Dutch-speakers European Flanders Flemish Forêt de Soignes France French French-speaking Galeries Gare du Midi German Géry Grand-Place Gudule guild hall Hergé Hôtel Hugo immigrants industry Jacques Jacques Brel John of Ruysbroeck King known Laeken lambic language large number Leopold II's literary lived Louvain Magritte Maison Manneken Pis Marolles Marollien Mechelen medieval Molenbeek Monnaie moved Musée museum Napoleon original paintings palace Palais de Justice Paris Parliament Philip Pierre poet popular River Senne Royale Rue Haute Ruysbroeck Sablon Schaerbeek Spanish started statue street Surrealism Surrealists theater Théâtre Tintin took Uccle Vilvoorde Wallonia Walloon Waterloo Willebroeck Woluwe writing