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George Wharton Edwards. Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders
Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders
Table of Contents
FOREWORD
Malines
Malines
Some Carillons of Flanders
Some Carillons of Flanders
Dixmude
Dixmude
Ypres
Ypres
Commines
Commines
Bergues
Bergues
Nieuport
Nieuport
Alost
Alost
Courtrai
Courtrai
Termonde (Dendermonde)
Termonde (Dendermonde)
Louvain
Louvain
Douai
Douai
Oudenaarde
Oudenaarde
Furnes
Furnes
The Artists of Malines
The Artists of Malines
A Word About the Belgians
A Word About the Belgians
INDEX
FOOTNOTES:
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George Wharton Edwards
Published by Good Press, 2019
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On the Place de la Boucherie in Malines was the old "Palais," which was used as a museum and contained many ill-assorted objects of the greatest interest and value, such as medals, embroideries, weapons, and a fine collection of ancient miniatures on ivory. There was also a great iron "Armoire Aux Chartes," quite filled with priceless parchments, great vellum tomes, bound in brass; large waxen seals of dead and gone rulers and nobles; heavy volumes bound in leather, containing the archives. And also a most curious strong box bound in iron bands, nail studded, and with immense locks and keys, upon which reclined a strange, wooden figure with a grinning face, clad in the moth-eaten ancient dress of Malines, representing "Op Signorken" (the card states), but the attendant told me it was the "Vuyle Bridegroom," and related a story of it which cannot be set down here, Flemish ideas and speech being rather freer than ours. But the people, or rather the peasants, are devoted to him, and there were occasions when he was borne in triumph in processions when the town was "en fête."
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