. Thrilling stories of the Great War on land and sea, in the air, under the water. gainst their feudal masters. In the four-teenth century it had gained a population of between100,000 and 150,000, and there were no fewer than2,400 woolen manufactories. The weavers were aturbulent lot, however, and when they rose against theDuke Wencelaus he conquered them and forcedthousands of them to flee to Holland and was then that Brussels became the capital and160 PRICELESS MONUMENTS DESTROYED Louvain lost its prestige as a center of the cloth-makingindustry. Scholars began to pour into the to
. Thrilling stories of the Great War on land and sea, in the air, under the water. gainst their feudal masters. In the four-teenth century it had gained a population of between100,000 and 150,000, and there were no fewer than2,400 woolen manufactories. The weavers were aturbulent lot, however, and when they rose against theDuke Wencelaus he conquered them and forcedthousands of them to flee to Holland and was then that Brussels became the capital and160 PRICELESS MONUMENTS DESTROYED Louvain lost its prestige as a center of the cloth-makingindustry. Scholars began to pour into the town, however, toglean what learn-ing they couldfrom the oldparchments andbooks which itscastles 1423 Duke JohnIV of Brabantfounded LouvainUniversity. Stu-dents flocked therefrom all over theworld. In thesixteenth centuryit had 4,000 stu-dents and forty-three colleges. The library oc-cupied a largeroom with finewood panels,carved in intricatedesigns. It held150,000 volumesand thousands ofmanuscripts, val-uable beyondprice. It contained a colossal group representing a. The Voice of the Cologne Church Speaks: Louvain, thou wast built on my foundations,spirit of my spirit, heart of my heart. scene from the Flood, sculptured by Geerts in 1839. ii 161 PRICELESS MONUMENTS DESTROYED One block to the north of the university is the GrandePlace, on which faced the Hotel de Ville, one of thefinest examples of the late Gothic style of architecturein Europe. It surpassed the town halls of Bruges,Brussels, and Ghent in elegance of detail and harmonyof design. It was erected in 1448 by Mathieu deLayens, and it was from the upper windows of thisbuilding that thirteen magistrates of noble birth werehurled to their death on the spears of the populace inthe streets below during the weavers uprising. Across the Grande Place stood the church of , a magnificent type of the Gothic style built ona cruciform plan and flanked by chapels holding reli-quaries of the saints, life-sized
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