Artevelde

• “Unless you are a stubborn Dutchman -- and Jan Van Artevelde was the stubbornest Dutchman on Venus.”

  SF Tidbits for 9/17/07

• “That was the war of Ambiorix, of Artevelde, of Marnix, of Pelagius.”

  Les Miserables

• “Here are sober truth, and sound philosophy, and sincere feeling together, in the words of Philip van Artevelde: --”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator

• “But though Artevelde speaks truly and well, you remember how Mr. Taylor, in that noble play, works out to our view the sad sight of the deterioration of character, the growing coarseness and harshness, the lessening tenderness and kindliness, which are apt to come with advancing years.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator

• “Flanders, -- Artevelde and Charles Téméraire -- whose soul was a forest of huge trees and dark thickets,”

  Recent Developments in European Thought

• “Do not think, however, that in making this observation I intend to impeach the character of Philip van Artevelde himself.”

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845

• “Artevelde I admire without stint, and without exception.”

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845

• “Artevelde, too, reflects, examines himself, pauses, considers, and his will is the servant of his thought; but reflection with him comes in aid of resolution, matures it, establishes it.”

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845

• “With Sir Henry Taylor, whose “Philip van Artevelde” she admired, the intercourse was, from her youth to old age, intimate and affectionate.”

  Lady John Russell

• “It was a brief and ill-starred alliance, ruinous to Flemish trade and abruptly ended by the fall of Artevelde, whom his fellow-citizens tore limb from limb under the impression that he was aiming at a tyranny (1345).”

  Medieval Europe

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