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7 photos and 7 illustrations tagged louvain, from 3 members of Flickr Commons.
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Recent uploads
The last upload was August 2018.
British Library digitised image from page 100 of "The great Wonders of the World" from British Library uploaded January 2018
Church of St. Pierre, Louvain (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded September 2011
Library -- Louvain (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded September 2011
Town Hall, Louvain (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded September 2011
Wilson at Louvain, Belgium from Wilson Pres. Lib. uploaded March 2010
At the University of Louvain from Wilson Pres. Lib. uploaded March 2010
[General view, Louvain, Belgium] (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded September 2009
[St. Gertrude Church, Louvain, Belgium] (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded September 2009
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Library -- Louvain (LOC)
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Carl Guderian said:
The library and much of the city of Louvain was set on fire by the occupying Germans in a five-day fit of paranoia between 25 and 30 August 1914, following a failed counterattack by Belgian forces from Antwerp. The library was only rebuilt in 1921, so that should narrow it down a bit. As these things go, yesterday I found this photo, dated 22 Sept 1914, for sale online: Link (won't be there much longer).
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Hiring Librarians said:
Thanks for sharing this photo, I appreciate being able to get a sense of history. Just wanted to let you know I used it on my blog here: hiringlibrarians.com/2012/05/16/answer-in-a-pithy-manner/
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Viejito said:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_libraries_in_Leuven#The_Li...
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Carl Guderian said:
Hiring Librarians That's perfectly OK!
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Carl Guderian said:
Viejito Thanks for that. It's also a relief to find out that most of the good stuff survived the fire because it had been looted by Napoleon in 1797 and returned, presumably per the Congress of Vienna of 1815, to other institutions in Belgium.
Church of St. Pierre, Louvain (LOC)
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Kilted Cowboy said:
poor Louvain, the church was noted for the fire that destroyed it www.firstworldwar.com/battles/louvain.htm video of the sack of Louvain here www.firstworldwar.com/video/sackoflouvain.htm
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swanq said:
www.firstworldwar.com/battles/louvain.htm According to this website, The Belgian city of Louvain was occupied by the Germans on August 19, 1914. The Belgians attacked on August 25 and the Germans retaliated by burning and looting the city for 5 days.