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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.
F. van Dycke, Recueil héraldique de familles nobles et patriciennes de la Ville et du Franconat de Bruges, Brugge, 1851; Armand de Behault de Dornon, Etudes sur les Seigneurs de Gruuthuse, in: Handelingen van het genootschap voor geschiedenis te Brugge, 1928, 5-24; Alphonse Wauters Les seigneurs de la Gruythuyse, in: Biographie Nationale de ...
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 ...
His son Louis de Gruuthuse added a second wing to the house and in 1472 a chapel. This connects the house to the adjacent Church of Our Lady, Bruges. [1] In 1596, the house was bought by Philip II of Spain and in 1623 given to Wenceslas Cobergher to house the Bruges mount of piety. The city of Bruges bought the house in 1875, and architect ...
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)
Bridges was born on December 9, 1941 [4] in Los Angeles, California, the son of actors Lloyd Bridges (1913–1998) and Dorothy Bridges (née Simpson; 1915–2009). [5] He was nicknamed Beau by his parents after Ashley Wilkes' son in Gone with the Wind. [6]
Franciscus Lucas was born in Bruges late in 1548 or early in 1549, the son of Josse Lucas and Ghislaine Vande Walle. He studied at Castle College, Leuven, for his B.A., graduating on 6 March 1568, placing fifth of the 155 students in his year.
Jean Bondol, also known as Jean de Bruges, Jean Boudolf, or Jan Baudolf, was a Flemish artist who became a court artist of Charles V of France in 1368. He is ...