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- Les auteurs
- 23 x 28.5 cm
- 384 pages
- 400 color illustrations
- ISBN: 978-2-9092-8356-2
- Text in French only
Jean Froissart, chronicler of the Hundred Years' War, is at home in Hainaut. Robert Louis Stevenson goes down the rivers in a canoe. Zola sets up Germinal's trestles on the settlements. Rimbaud enjoys a rare moment of happiness in Charleroi. Verlaine sees his Mons prison as “the best of castles”. In Marchienne, Marguerite Yourcenar, confronted with the portraits of her ancestors, drew that of Saint-Just, who had the great Hennuyeres abbeys burned. For everyone, writing is driven by the strength of men, architectures, landscapes, which confront the sprawling and the bucolic, the black and the green, the impassive water of canals equipped with elevators with that of streams and rivers, iconic mining towns, engineering masterpieces, Art Nouveau, Art Deco and contemporary architecture. A collective of authors invites you to discover the rare atmospheres of the North, the three fortified towns of Hainaut, a land with a rich past separated by an artificial line resulting from treaties and to which Europe is today restoring its integrity and dynamism.