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Dinant Destruction Echoes Historic Sorrow In Belgium
In Country Life a writer recalls Dinant on the Meuse, its brassworks era, siege by the Bastard of Burgundy, and final ruin in 1466 and again in 1914. The town’s decline from wealth to humble resilience mirrors Belgium’s broader wartime tragedy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dinant
Meuse
Louvain
Namur
Malines
Bonne Ville
Liege
Philippe de Commines
Bouvignes
Sire de Communes
Louis
France
Montlhery
Charles Tha
Heir of
Burgundy
Charles Count of
Charo
Lois
Dinante
St. George and
Orient
Brussels
Olivier de la Marche
Messire Pierre de Hacquembac
Rachel
Belgium
Church of Dinant
Europe
Ghent