Brussels: A Cultural and Literary Companion
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Starting out as a few huts in a forbidding swamp, Brussels took more than a thousand years to become the capital of the Duchy of Brabant, of Burgundy, and from 1830 the capital city of the new kingdom of Belgium. Today its name popularly evokes Eurocrat megalomania and miniature cabbages, its image that of a beer-drinker's dream, a paradise of chocolates and French fries. Yet Brussels, for all its reputation for bureaucracy and extravagance, is a...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1566564727
ISBN13:9781566564724
Release Date:January 2002
Publisher:Interlink Books
Length:256 Pages
Weight:0.75 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.3" x 8.2"
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