Braine-l'Alleud

To study history at the spot where the event took place means work as well as pleasure, so we took our luncheon and sleep in our car while the train carried us to Brussels, and out to Braine-l'Alleud, where, on the beautiful rolling plain of Belgium, June 18, 1805,

Questionable Amusements and Worthy Substitutes J. M. Judy

The train reached Braine-l'Alleud long before daybreak.

Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 4 France and the Netherlands, Part 2 Various 1885

I am now on this memorable spot as the solitary guest of a small hotel at the base of the Lion's Mound, after having made a night of it in crossing from Aix-la-Chapelle to Brussels and thence, through a storm of mist and rain to the little station of Braine-l'Alleud, which is a good mile from the battlefield.

Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 4 France and the Netherlands, Part 2 Various 1885

The road was so narrow at the Braine-l'Alleud entrance that a passerby was crushed by a cart, as is proved by a stone cross which stands near the cemetery, and which gives the name of the dead, Monsieur Bernard Debrye, Merchant of Brussels, and the date of the accident, February, 1637.

Les Miserables, Volume II, Cosette 1862

He summoned thither Hill, who was at Merle-Braine; he summoned Chasse, who was at Braine-l'Alleud.

Les Miserables, Volume II, Cosette 1862

The left limb of the A is the road to Nivelles, the right limb is the road to Genappe, the tie of the A is the hollow road to Ohain from Braine-l'Alleud.

Les Miserables, Volume II, Cosette 1862

The attack of the right wing of the French on Papelotte was calculated, in fact, to overthrow the English left, to cut off the road to Brussels, to bar the passage against possible Prussians, to force Mont-Saint-Jean, to turn Wellington back on Hougomont, thence on Braine-l'Alleud, thence on Hal; nothing easier.

Les Miserables, Volume II, Cosette 1862

The clump of sparsely planted but very green trees, which fills the valley on one side of the road, is dispersed over the meadows on the other, and disappears gracefully and as in order in the direction of Braine-l'Alleud.

Les Miserables, Volume II, Cosette 1862

Braine-l'Alleud is a Belgian village; Ohain is another.

Les Miserables, Volume II, Cosette 1862

In the west he perceived the slate-roofed tower of Braine-l'Alleud, which has the form of a reversed vase.

Les Miserables, Volume II, Cosette 1862