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Two more bombs whirled down, bursting on a machine gun; then the airman turned with a cry of triumph, and at the same instant the sun rose above the hills and flung a golden ray straight across his face. To Maryette the man stood transfigured, like the Blazing Guardian of the Flaming Sword. "Ring out your Brabançonne!" he cried. "Let the Huns hear the war song of the land they’ve trampled! Now!
"And do you mean that you and I are to go there, to Nivelle?" she asked. "That is exactly what I mean. In an hour I shall be in the Nivelle belfry. Will you be there with me?" "Yes." "Excellent!" he exclaimed. "You can play ’La Brabançonne’ on the bells while I blow hell out of them in the redoubt below us!" The infantry from the Nivelle trenches began to pass.
When the tricolour was forbidden altogether, it was replaced by the ivyleaf, ivy being the emblem of faithfulness; later, the ivyleaf was followed by a green ribbon, green being the colour of hope. The Brabançonne being excluded from the street and from the school took refuge in the Churches, where it is played and often sung by the congregation at the end of the service.
"Yes." "Bread, wine, and some meat, if you have any. I’ll be back in a few moments." He left her at the inn door and went out into the street, whistling "La Brabançonne." A cavalryman directed him to the military telephone installed in the house of the notary across the street.
It suited Austria and Russia, since it created a strong buffer State acting as a bulwark against French annexionism in the North. It suited everybody but the Belgians themselves, who had never been consulted, in spite of their desire to be independent, made evident by the Brabançonne Revolution and their attitude under the French régime.
The Governor of Namur, for instance, discriminates with the acutest subtlety between wearing the national colours in private and in public, and the Brabançonne can for a time be sung, so long as it is not rendered "in a provoking manner." In fact, the Belgians are free to manifest their patriotism so long as they are neither seen nor heard.
As a matter of fact, the Brabançonne revolution was far more conservative than progressive. The intellectual Vonckists, who had always been in a minority, were practically ignored on the morrow of the victory, and Van der Noot assumed power.
As the car started, very slowly, cautiously feeling its way out of Sainte Lesse, the fat staff officer turned his horse and trotted up alongside. The car stopped, the engine still running. "It’s understood?" asked the officer in a low voice. "It’s to be when we hear ’La Brabançonne’?" "When you hear ’La Brabançonne.’" "Understood," said the staff officer crisply, saluted and drew bridle.
Still, they could not restrain their feelings, and, at the close of the sermon, when the organ struck up the Brabançonne, they cheered and cheered again, thankful to feel, for an instant, the dull weight of oppression lifted from their shoulders by the indomitable spirit of their old leader.
He dissolved the States General a few months later . From this time to the end of the eighteenth century, during the Brabançonne revolution, the representatives of the Belgian people were no longer consulted and had no share in the central Government of Belgium.
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