. Zigzag journeys in Europe : vacation rambles in historic lands. !!m| | I J,| VII I I I. VAN ARTEVELDE AT HIS DOOR. BELGIUM. 2 I 5 The Class returned to Brussels, and thence made easy journeysthrough a fertile and thickly settled country, towards Normandy. Ghent, a grand old city of the commerce kings of Flanders, with itsquaint town-hall and its two hundred and seventy bridges, next met theeager eyes of our tourists, who stopped here briefly on their way toBruges. I never hear the name of Ghent pronounced, said Master Lewis,without recalling the scene which history pictures of James vanArtev
. Zigzag journeys in Europe : vacation rambles in historic lands. !!m| | I J,| VII I I I. VAN ARTEVELDE AT HIS DOOR. BELGIUM. 2 I 5 The Class returned to Brussels, and thence made easy journeysthrough a fertile and thickly settled country, towards Normandy. Ghent, a grand old city of the commerce kings of Flanders, with itsquaint town-hall and its two hundred and seventy bridges, next met theeager eyes of our tourists, who stopped here briefly on their way toBruges. I never hear the name of Ghent pronounced, said Master Lewis,without recalling the scene which history pictures of James vanArtevelde standing in the door of his house, when the burghers, tiredof the rule of kings and nobles, came to him for counsel, and askedhim to become their leader. It was really the burghers declaration ofindependence, and the making one of their number, — for James vanArtevelde was a brewer, — president of the rich old city. This wason the 26th of December, 1337. It was a bold stroke for liberty inthe days of tyranny, and the memory of it will ever live. I know but little of the histo
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