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Updated: June 6, 2025
Cotta writes me that he has secured the English copyright, and sent some copies to the principal Reviews and the 'Times. Believe me, very faithfully yours, From the Comte de Paris Chateau d'Eu, 9 decembre. Mon cher Monsieur Reeve, Un de mes amis va partir pour la Belgique. Je tiens a en profiter pour lui confier une lettre a votre adresse, qu'il mettra a la poste chez nos voisins.
Two long lines one the guides, in green and scarlet, the other the lancers, in blue and yellow spread themselves across the fields. "Trot!" The bugles squealed the order. "Gallop!" The forest of lances dropped from vertical to horizontal and the cloud of gaily fluttering pennons changed into a bristling hedge of steel. "Charge!" came the order, and the spurs went home. "Vive la Belgique!
See for this Pirenne, Histoire de Belgique, vols. i. and ii., and Lamprecht, Deutsche Geschichte, iii., 304-324, and iv., 134-142. A common desire to avoid calamity bound together the warring classes and rival districts of Flanders, as they had never been united before.
The word "Belgium," as a noun, is only found in a few books; "belgique" is a mere adjective applied to the southern portion of the Netherlands. It must be admitted that the Belgian official historians of the old school did very little to dispel this wrong impression. In their patriotic zeal they endeavoured to picture Belgium as struggling valiantly all the time against foreign oppression.
An officer will meet you there and tell you what to do. I must ride on to carry the alarm to Putte." He wheeled his horse as he spoke, and, turning in his saddle, lifted his sword and cried, "Vive le Roi!" "Vive le Roi! Vive la Belgique!" came in an answering shout from the people of Meer, and he was gone. There was a moment of stunned silence as he rode away; then a sound of women weeping.
Cambon boasted to the Convention that the Netherlands not only provided for the upkeep of the Republican armies, but also enriched the national treasury. Under the management of the "Agence de Commerce et d'Extraction de la Belgique," the treasuries of churches, convents, corporations and municipalities were carted away, together with pictures, works of art and industrial machines.
To say that a man has got a "Belgique" means that he is dead. The boys have different sayings for everything, and they sound funny unless you know what they mean. "Buckshee" the English troops call anything that you might have to spare, such as "Have you a buckshee razor?" meaning "Have you a spare razor?" The word "buckshee" comes from the Hindoo word "Backsheesh."
There is little manufacturing industry, as might be supposed, and what is made save by hand and in single examples is of the most simple character. "Made in Germany" or "Tabriqué en Belgique" are the marks one sees on most of the common manufactured articles.
Vive la Belgique!" roared the troopers and the Germans, not liking the look of those long and cruel lances, fell back precipitately into the wood where the troopers could not follow them. Then, their work having been accomplished, the cavalry came trotting back again.
The principles which animated them were set forth in a protocol which breathes throughout a spirit of fairness and conciliation but all was marred by the final clause Elles mettent ces principes en exécution en vertu de leur droit de conquete de la Belgique.
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