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La Brugeoise advert circa 1930 Interior of a Brugeoise underground car at the Polvorín Workshop. In 1851, Joseph De Jaegher founded a hardware store in the Burg in Bruges; in 1855, this expanded with a steel workshop on the Raamstraat, named Ateliers J. Jaegher; in 1891, this merged with another steel making company in the nearby Gieterijstraat, the Usines Ferdinand Feldhaus, to form the ...
Duchamp's Boîte-en-valise, Cleveland Museum of Art. La Boîte-en-valise (box in a suitcase) is a type of mixed media assemblage by Marcel Duchamp consisting of a group of reproductions of the artist's works inside a box that was, in some cases, accompanied by a leather valise or suitcase.
Nivelles railway station (French: Gare de Nivelles; Dutch: Station Nijvel) [a] is a railway station in Nivelles, Walloon Brabant, Belgium. The station opened on 1 June 1874 and is located on railway line 124 .
Nivelles (French: ⓘ; Dutch: Nijvel ⓘ; Walloon: Nivele) is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the Belgian province of Walloon Brabant. The Nivelles municipality includes the former municipalities of Baulers, Bornival , Thines , and Monstreux.
Nivelles Abbey was founded in 640 by the widow of Pepin of Landen, Itta of Metz, along with her daughter, Gertrude of Nivelles, with the support of the bishop, Saint Amand. The abbey began as a community of nuns; they were joined later by Irish monks from Mont Saint-Quentin Abbey, sent by Abbot Foillan to give support to the nuns.
The Arrondissement of Nivelles (French: Arrondissement de Nivelles; Dutch: Arrondissement Nijvel) is an arrondissement in Wallonia and Belgium. It is the only arrondissement in the province of Walloon Brabant, and is coterminous with it. Before 1995, it was one of three arrondissements in the Province of Brabant.
Initially called the Musée des Monuments Antiques from 1970 to 1978, the project was subsequently left unfinished and only came to fruition after being brought under the Louvre's management by ministerial decision in 2001. [151] It is located in the Petite Écurie, a dependency of Versailles Palace, and has been open to the public since 2012 ...
The Carnival of Nivelles (French: Carnaval de Nivelles) is an annual festival held in Nivelles, Walloon Brabant, Belgium. The parade takes place yearly on the weekend of Quadragesima Sunday . [ 1 ] It lasts four days, starting the first Saturday of Lent and ending the following Tuesday.