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At the beginning of 2017, Leboncoin totaled, according to Le Figaro Magazine, a monthly audience of 28 million unique visitors. It is the fourth most visited site in France after Google, Facebook and YouTube. On February 7, 2021, the site recorded 20.4 million visits during the day. [10]
The Brussels Coin Cabinet is a public numismatics collection established on 8 August 1835 that is now the Coins and Medals Department of the Royal Library of Belgium. [1] At its foundation it was part of the "Musée d'armes anciennes, d'armures, d'objets d'art et de numismatique".
Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles has garnered a cult following and praise from the film community. Filmmakers Todd Haynes , Gus Van Sant , and Céline Sciamma have drawn explicit influence from the film; [ 12 ] Van Sant named it an inspiration for his own similar films Gerry (2002) and Elephant (2003). [ 13 ]
The Royal Mint of Belgium (French: La Monnaie Royale de Belgique; Dutch: De Koninklijke Munt van België) was responsible for minting all official coins of Kingdom of Belgium from 1832 to 2017. As of 2018 the official legal tender of Belgium are the euro and euro cent coins. It is under the control of the Belgian Administration of the Treasury.
With the adoption of the decimal U.S. currency in 1794, there was no longer a U.S. coin worth $ 1 ⁄ 8, but "two bits" remained in the language with the meaning of $ 1 ⁄ 4. Because there was no 1-bit coin, a dime (10¢) was sometimes called a short bit and 15¢ a long bit.
[3] Street prostitution has traditionally taken place in the Alhambra quarter of Brussels to the south-west of the North Station. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] In 2014, local authorities introduced a measure to restrict street prostitution to an area around the Boulevard d'Anvers / Antwerpselaan but the measure was unsuccessful and prostitutes continued to work ...
Created in 1801 by decree of Napoleon, the Stock Exchange (French: Bourse de Commerce) established in Brussels successively occupied different premises. [2] From 1858, a time when it experienced considerable development following the country's economic and industrial growth, the cramped and unsanitary conditions of the various premises led the business community to demand, from the municipal ...
The Sablon (French, pronounced ⓘ) or Zavel (Dutch, pronounced ⓘ) is a neighbourhood and hill in the historic upper town of Brussels, Belgium.At its heart are twin squares: the larger Grand Sablon or Grote Zavel ("Large Sablon") square in the north-west and the smaller Petit Sablon or Kleine Zavel ("Small Sablon") square and garden in the south-east, divided by the Church of Our Lady of ...