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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)
Bruges-la-Morte (French; The Dead [City of] Bruges) is a short novel by the Belgian author Georges Rodenbach, first published in 1892. The novel is notable for two reasons: it was the archetypal Symbolist novel, and was the first work of fiction illustrated with photographs.
The Death of the Virgin, c 1472–1480. 147.8cm x 122.5cm. Groeningemuseum, Bruges. The Death of the Virgin is an oil-on-oak-panel painting by the Flemish painter Hugo van der Goes. Completed c 1472–1480, it shows the Virgin Mary on her deathbed surrounded by the Twelve Apostles.
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.
Mary was born in 1457 as the only child of Charles the Bold (1433–1477) and Isabella of Bourbon (1434–1465). Mary was eight years old when her mother died. She was a well-recognised patron of the arts, and, aged 18, commissioned a tomb for her mother (which she had significant input into Isabella's tomb; it was still incomplete by the time of her own early death). [6]
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 ...
Date of death Office entered Office left Party Jean-Baptiste Coppieters 't Wallant: 8 December 1770 8 July 1840 1830 1841 Jean-Marie de Pelichy van Huerne: 12 May 1774 18 November 1859 1841 1855 Catholic Party: Jules Boyaval: 7 February 1814 13 September 1879 1855 1876 Liberal Party: Amedée Visart de Bocarmé: 4 November 1835 29 May 1924 1876 1924