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A few days later the Graphic of March 27, 1915, published several of his pictures, which eventually found their way to many American papers. I was ordered that evening to dine with the Commanding Admiral of the Marine Corps, Excellency von Schröder, and a motor called for me and took me to Brügge where he resided.
Those who thus turned away from the fort would say, 'Let us go to the bridge. And when the houses near the bridge became so numerous as to form a town, it kept as its proper name the Flemish word Brugge." The small island on which this primitive township stood was bounded on the south and east by the Roya, on the north by the Boterbeke, and on the west by the moat joining these two streams.
So that, to compare it with a modern trade union, divested of all attributes of State sovereignty, and reduced to a couple of functions of secondary importance, is as unreasonable as to compare Florence or Brugge with a French commune vegetating under the Code Napoleon, or with a Russian town placed under Catherine the Second's municipal law.
Pupil of P. de Cock and Suvée. In 1753, she went to Brügge with her father, and later to Paris and Vienna. She painted portraits of the Emperor Joseph II. and Maria Theresa, some good landscapes, and animal studies. Two of her pictures are in the Museum at Brügge.
Surely it was not the disappearance of the artist-artisan, nor the ruin of large cities and the extinction of intercourse between them, which could favour the industrial revolution; and we know indeed that James Watt spent twenty or more years of his life in order to render his invention serviceable, because he could not find in the last century what he would have readily found in medieval Florence or Brugge, that is, the artisans capable of realizing his devices in metal, and of giving them the artistic finish and precision which the steam-engine requires.
Among her portraits are those of Lafayette, Thomas Benton, Henry A. Wise, Caleb Cushing, and other distinguished men. From 1847 she resided in St. Louis thirty years and then went to Philadelphia. Her later works were still-life subjects, especially fruits. <b>PELICHY, GEERTRUIDA.</b> Honorary member of the Academy of Vienna. Born in Utrecht, 1744; died in Brügge, 1825.
The whole process of liberation progressed by a series of imperceptible acts of devotion to the common cause, accomplished by men who came out of the masses by unknown heroes whose very names have not been preserved by history. So also Brugge and Ghent; so also several cities of France in which the Mahl or forum had become a quite independent institution.
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