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Post by bridgeplayer on Feb 25, 2019 2:19:56 GMT
I did some armchair travelling in French Flanders, a region where, in the not too distant past, a Dutch dialect was spoken. The number of native speakers of Dutch in the north of France is now down to something like 20,000. I was especially interested in the town of Steenvoorde, because it was the starting point of a momentous ‘iconoclastic fury’ that raged through the Low Countries in the second half of 1566 and was one of the events that led up to the Dutch Revolt against Spain. But nothing in Steenvoorde reminds of the mayhem. I found a web page about a “mysterious” building in Steenvoorde. www.widopedia.eu/een-protestantse-tempel-in-steenvoordeThe writer, Wido Bourel, thought it may have been a Protestant church before starting a second life as a café. (From other web sources I learned it was always a café.) I tried to look it up in GSV, but the information given in the article was not sufficient to find it. (The text itself is clear enough, and Google Translate does an adequate job of rendering it into English.) SV image please.
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Post by bridgeplayer on Jun 13, 2019 13:41:18 GMT
Well done all. Where in Steenvoorde is this? At the corner of Rue Carnot and Rue Saint-Jean. 50.8065°N, 2.5839°E
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