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This is a French-speaking Belgian branch of the Red Cross. This subsidiary organization of the Belgian Red Cross is also like Rode Kruis-Vlaanderens as it is a connected member of the International Red Cross and the Red Crescent Movement.
Schaerbeek counts a number of Art Deco and Art Nouveau houses, including the Autrique House, the first house built by Victor Horta in the Brussels area. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] The Municipal Hall of Schaerbeek , designed in neo-Flemish Renaissance style by the architect Jules Jacques Van Ysendyck [ fr ] , was inaugurated by King Leopold II in 1887.
The Rue Victor Hugo / Victor Hugostraat in Schaerbeek, Brussels. The Rue Victor Hugo (French, pronounced [ʁy viktɔʁ yɡo]) or Victor Hugostraat is a street in the Schaerbeek municipality of Brussels, Belgium. It is named after the French writer Victor Hugo, who spent his exile of 1851 to 1870 in Brussels.
The first range was started in 1859 by then-Prime Minister Charles Rogier, and mayor of Schaerbeek, Eugene Dailly, at the Prince Baudouin barracks on the Place Dailly / Daillyplein. [1] This first range was abandoned in 1886 by the Government due to obsolescence. Modernisation of weapons meant that longer ranges were required.
Schaerbeek railway station (French: Gare de Schaerbeek) or Schaarbeek railway station (Dutch: Station Schaarbeek) [a] is a railway station in the municipality of Schaerbeek in Brussels, Belgium, opened in 1887. The train services are operated by the National Railway Company of Belgium (NMBS/SNCB).
The Halles de Schaerbeek or Hallen van Schaarbeek is a cultural centre in Brussels, Belgium. It is located at 22, rue Royale Sainte-Marie / Koninklijke Sinte-Mariastraat in Schaerbeek , in the former Sainte-Marie covered market, built in 1865 and destroyed by a fire in 1898.
The French Red Cross (French: Croix-Rouge française), or the CRF, is the national Red Cross Society in France founded in 1864 and originally known as the Société française de secours aux blessés militaires (SSBM). Recognized as a public utility since 1945, the French Red Cross is one of the 191 national societies of the International Red ...
The cathedral's origins are obscure, but historians agree that, as early as the 9th century, a chapel dedicated to Saint Michael probably stood in its place, on what was the most important point of Brussels at the time; the crossroads of two major trade routes—a first one connecting the County of Flanders and Cologne, and another between Antwerp and Mons, then France.