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Title: The spell of Flanders; an outline of the history, legends and art of Belgium's famous northern provinces, being the story of a twentieth century pilgrimage in a sixteenth century land just before the outbreak of the great war
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Vose, Edward Neville
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Publisher: Boston, The Page Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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the orig-inal owner, has collected a complete equipmentof eighteenth-century furniture. The dining-room has rare porcelain from Tournai, withthe precious gilt marks of the choicest make,the music-room has an old-time harpsichord,the kitchen possesses an array of old-time pew-ter, copper and brassware. In the chambersthe same plan has been faithfully carried out,even to placing the owners uniforms and galaraiment in the wardrobes. Permission to visitthese delightful rooms is freely granted to allvisitors to Ypres without charge, other than anoptional fee to the attendant. We were toldthat natives of the city are not admitted, butforgot to ask the caretaker if this was true. A little farther down this same rue de Lilleis an old edifice that for many years has beencalled the House of the Templars. It has beenrestored and is now used as the Post Office —it was for a long time a brewery — but it is notnow believed that this was ever the House ofthe famous mediaeval order. The Templars,
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CHURCH OF ST. PETER, YPRES. When Ypres was Greater than London 141 however, did erect at Ypres their first house inEurope, and it may well be that this struc-ture was copied from it. Beyond this interest-ing edifice we encountered a grim-looking oldchurch, that of St. Peter, within the doorwayof which is a most curious mediaeval Calvary.This church is one of the oldest in Flanders,having been built in 1073 by Eobert the Frisian,one of the early Counts. On this street alsostands the Hospice St. Jean which was foundedin 1277. It contains one fine timbered ceilingroom, with panelled walls, called the nunsworkroom, and some paintings by Kerel vanYper, an obscure local artist of the sixteenthcentury. In this section we were so fortunate as to seethe lace workers, of whom there are still sev-eral hundred, making point de Valenciennesoutside the doors of their tiny houses. Mrs.Professor never tired of watching these women,— who are for the most part middle-aged, whilesome of them are very

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