Sep 13, 2018
Le canal souterrain de Riqueval
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Le canal souterrain de Riqueval
Making my researches for my Louis XIV books gives me little glimpse of his private life and OMG I'm having feelings.
In February 1669, his illegitimate children with La Vallière, Marie-Anne de Bourbon(3 yo) next to be known as Mademoiselle de Blois, and her younger brogher Louis (2 yo) next to be Count of Vermandois, are baptised. In a letter to the Duke of Savoy, the Marquis de Saint-Maurice says that after the baptism, the king took the boy with him to his legitimate son, the Dauphin (8 yo). He asked the young prince to caress (aka give a hug) and love him, for he was his brother, to which Saint-Maurice says the Dauphin obeyed graciously. Now I just can't stop myself from imagining the three Louis together and the two boys being awkwardly cutewith sun dad observing both of them as "you get along ok ?"
Hoe kwam Wervik aan zijn naam?
Wat betekent die naam ‘Viroviacum’? Waar en hoe en wanneer is de naam van Wervik ontstaan? Lokaal vind ik niets. Gissingen en niet veel meer. De zaak houden me dagen bezig. Dagen aan een stuk, komt er geen letter op papier. Geen gebrek aan kattenbelletjes. Briefjes en nota’s stapelen zich van langs om meer op rond mijn pc’s en op mijn bureau. Ik heb natuurlijk een belangrijke streep voor op de…
