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He is best known for wearing the yellow jersey in the 1984 Tour de France, retaining the lead for 12 days, [1] and winning the stage on Bastille Day in the 1989 Tour de France. He retired the following year. After retirement he bought a franchise from the Jeff de Bruges chocolate brand and operates three Jeff de Bruges shops in his native Normandy.
Louis de Gruuthuse, Flemish knight, courtier, and nobleman (1427–1492) Philip I of Castile, first Habsburg ruler in Spain (1478–1506) Adriaen Isenbrant, Renaissance painter (1490–1551) Adrian Willaert, composer of the Renaissance (c. 1490 – 1562, birth in Bruges uncertain) Petrus Vulcanius, humanist scholar and administrator (c 1503-1571)
The de Vriendt brothers (Juliaen Joseph (1842–1935) and Albrecht François Lieven (1843–1900)) Louis Dewis (born in Mons , 1872 – died in Biarritz 1946) – Post-Impressionism August De Wilde (born in Lokeren , 1819 – died in Sint-Niklaas 1886) – portrait and genre painter
About Wikipedia; Contact us; Contribute Help; Learn to edit; Community portal; Recent changes; ... Jimmy De Wulf (1991–2001, November 2001 – 2003) Sven Dhoest ...
Lord Mayor of the Brugse Vrije: Henri de Vicq, Lord of Meuleveldt by Rubens Palace of het Brugse Vrije. Postcard of the Maison du Franc II (Excelsior Series 11, No. 13, Albert Sugg a Gand; ca. 1905). The castellany of Bruges was founded at around the year 1000 under the rule of Count Baldwin IV of Flanders (980–1035) as part of the county of ...
Bridges was born on December 4, 1949, in Los Angeles, the son of actor Lloyd Bridges (1913–1998) [2] and actress and writer Dorothy Bridges (née Simpson; 1915–2009). He is one of four children: older brother Beau Bridges (born December 9, 1941), who is also an actor; a younger sister Lucinda; and a brother named Garrett, who died of sudden infant death syndrome in 1948.
George W. T. Omond's Bruges and West Flanders (1906), illustrated by Amédée Forestier, refers to the building: Cranenburg, from the windows of which, in olden times, the Counts of Flanders, with the lords and ladies of their Court, used to watch the tournaments and pageants for which Bruges was celebrated, and in which Maximilian was ...
The production of religious images formed also an important part of the work of the Society, at Bruges in Belgium, and at Lille in France. In 1881 the Desclée brothers took over the production of the Revue de l'art chrétien. [6] In 2006, after some financial vicissitudes, Éditions Desclée de Brouwer was bought by the Swiss group Parole et ...