Nivelles

Franco-Flemish theorist and composer Johannes Tinctoris was born in Brainde l'Alleud (near Nivelles) c.1434 and died (?) in 1511.

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He also enjoyed a relatively important benefice as canon of the collegiate church of Sainte Gertrude in Nivelles.

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Genappe and Nivelles; only, it is now on a level with the plain; it was then a hollow way.

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Where the great pyramid of earth, surmounted by the lion, rises today, there was a hillock which descended in an easy slope towards the Nivelles road, but which was almost an escarpment on the side of the highway to Genappe.

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It rested on that stout stone dwelling which at that time belonged to the domain of Nivelles, and which marks the intersection of the roads — a pile of the sixteenth century, and so robust that the cannon-balls rebounded from it without injuring it.

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Warned, nevertheless, and put on the alert by the little white chapel which marks its angle of junction with the Nivelles highway, he had probably put a question as to the possibility of an obstacle, to the guide

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Nivelles and the Genappe roads, and said to him, “There are four and twenty handsome maids, General.”

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Nivelles road; hardly anything was left of those Dutch grenadiers, who, intermingled with Spaniards in our ranks in 1811, fought against

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Last year (1861), on a beautiful May morning, a traveller, the person who is telling this story, was coming from Nivelles, and directing his course towards La Hulpe.

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Nivelles highway, and there overflowed in a large pool in front of the abatis of trees which barred the way, at a spot which is still pointed out.

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