Contents

Chapter
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—[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—he 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
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2.A Corner of the Market on the Grande Place, Bruges[6]
3.Bell-ringer playing a Chime[9]
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 Pelican, (Almshouse), Bruges [69]
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.n 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 [151]
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, [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[244]
54.The Concierge of the Musée Plantin-Moretus, Antwerp[254]
55.The Place Verte, Antwerp[260]
56.The Musée Plantin-Moretus (the Arrière Boutique),Antwerp[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[296]
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]
78.Sketch Map of BELGIUM and part of HOLLAND[392]

Sketch-map at the end of Volume.

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