* Leopold II also engaged in a religious ceremony with Blanche Zélia Joséphine Delacroix, also known as Caroline Lacroix, a prostitute, on 14 December 1909, with no validity under Belgian law, at the Pavilion of Palms, Royal Palace of Laken, in Brussels, five days before his death.

Born in Brussels in 1856, he wrote in the French language, together with his younger brother Séraphin Justin François Boex under the pen name J .- H. Rosny until 1909.

Born in Brussels in 1859, until 1909 he wrote together with his older brother Joseph Henri Honoré Boex under the pen name J .- H. Rosny.

Placed on trial in Brussels from 9 March 1951 and defended by lawyer Ernst Achenbach ( 1909 – 1991 ), they were tried for their role in the deportation of more than 30, 000 Jews from Belgium, and not for their deaths in Auschwitz.

* DE MOREAU Edouard, L ' abbaye de Villers en Brabant aux XIIe et XIIIe s. Etude d ' histoire religieuse et économique, suivie d ' une notice archéologique par le chanoine R. Maere, Brussels: A. Dewit, 1909, LXXI-350 p. ( Université de Louvain.

In 2002, the band headlined twelve major summer music festivals, and played three extended concerts ( one in Brussels, two in Berlin ) in which they performed the albums Pornography, Disintegration and Bloodflowers in their respective entireties each night.

Front 242 was created in 1981 in Aarschot, near Brussels, Belgium, by Daniel Bressanutti and Dirk Bergen, who wanted to create music and graphic design using emerging electronic tools.

The band continued to release a number of audio video Download " bundles " through their official website, featuring live music and several short documentary style videos recorded during their 2006 tour in Edinburgh and Brussels ( including the complete show on 16 February 2006 at the Ancienne Belgique, Brussels, Belgium as " Live Bundles " No. 1 to No. 5 and ( only ) 6 tracks from the show on 28 August 2006 at the " T On The Fringe " music festival, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK as " Live Bundles " No. 6 & No. 7 ).

Born in London, Cusins entered the Chapel Royal in his tenth year and studied music in Brussels under François-Joseph Fétis and later at the Royal Academy of Music ( RAM ) in London, under Cipriani Potter, William Sterndale Bennett, Charles Lucas and Prosper Sainton.

On the recommendation of a pastor based in Brussels, who wanted to be of help, Belgium was chosen, where they could also study German, and music.

In the 1950s Bobbejaan Schoepen recorded his own absolutely crazy folk music often singing in the dialect of his native Brussels.

* Alain Van Kerckhoven Editeur, classical music publishing company based in Brussels, Belgium

Due to socio-military unrest and violence, many Rwandans have moved overseas in recent years, bringing their country's music to cities like Brussels.

He studied music at the conservatory in Brussels, where his teachers included the celebrated Belgian violinist Eugène Ysaÿe.

According to papers in the estate of Dr. Leopold Nowak ( who as head of the music collection of the Austrian National Library was in charge of the manuscript's transport to Brussels ) it is obvious however that there is absolutely no proof that the damage of the manuscript actually took place during the World's Fair in 1958 in Brussels.

His supervisor in Brussels, Count Cobenzl, reported in 1756 that " music takes up the best part of his time.

Born in Louvain, he won first prize in a local music composition when he was only 11, and subsequently enrolled at the Brussels Conservatoire.

At some time between these dates he was associated with the French royal chapel, since some of his music is for official occasions connected with Louis XII, and there is some evidence he may have been in Brussels in 1531 in the service of Queen Mary of Hungary, who was regent there.

and decided to form the band Vaya Con Dios together with contrabassist Dirk Schoufs, because they shared interests in gypsy music, jazz, and opera-genres that they felt were underappreciated in Brussels.

The indie and rock music scenes in Belgium is mainly active in the three biggest cities Antwerp, Ghent, and Brussels.

For the national festival of 1880 at Brussels, to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of Belgian independence, Hiel composed two cantatas, Belgenland (" The Land of the Belgians ") and Rer Belgenland (" Honour to Belgium "), which, set to music, were much appreciated.

He studied music at The Brussels Conservatoire and learnt the violin with Henri Vieuxtemps.

The young Marius received his general education at the Grand College in Brussels, while also attending the Brussels Conservatory where he studied music and learned to play the violin.

At the start of the residency, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker set herself three objectives: to intensify the relation between dance and music, to build a repertory, and to launch a dance school ( after the disappearance of MUDRA from Brussels in 1988 ).

The Communist coup in Czechoslovakia in 1948 was followed immediately by the conclusion of the Brussels Treaty, a 50-year alliance among Britain, France and the Benelux countries.

The colony was administered from Brussels, with neither the Congolese nor the resident Belgians having any vote.

The character was in the Brussels police force by 1893.

It was in 1904 he and I worked together – the Abercrombie forgery case – you remember he was run down in Brussels.

In The Double Clue Poirot mentions that he was Chief of Police of Brussels, until " the Great War " ( WWI ) forced him to leave for England.

* In 2005, the The Mirror World Asterix exhibition was held in Brussels.

Army of Darkness was nominated for the Grand Prize at Avoriaz Fantastic Film Festival, and won the Golden Raven at the Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film in 1993.

Additionally, Bonn was closer to Brussels, headquarters of the EU.

A new Belgian airline named SN Brussels Airlines was subsequently founded by business man Etienne Davignon.

The company was then renamed as Brussels Airlines in 2006.

In 2009, Brussels Airlines was taken over by German airline Lufthansa.

Another similarity to Jane Eyre was the use of aspects from her own life as inspiration for fictional events, in particular reworking the time she spent at the pensionnat in Brussels into Lucy teaching at the boarding school, and falling in love with Constantin Heger into Lucy falling in love with ' Paul Emanuel '.

Sluter probably worked in Brussels before moving to the Burgundian capital of Dijon, where from 1385 to 1389 he was the assistant of Jean de Marville, Court Sculptor to Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy.

In 1607, an edition was printed in Brussels.

Yet another Brussels edition was called for in 1611.

Among these was Countess Margaret of Flanders who established the monastery of Lille, while Val-Duchesse at Oudergern near Brussels was built with the wealth of Adelaide of Burgundy, Duchess of Brabant ( 1262 ).

" The finished painting — evoking painted porcelain because of its limpid coloration — was exhibited first in Brussels, then in Paris, where his former students flocked to view it.

Disallowed return to France for burial, for having been a regicide of King Louis XVI, the body of the painter Jacques-Louis David was buried at Brussels Cemetery, while his heart was buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris.

A companion picture, Columbus in Chains, procured him the gold medal of the Brussels Art Exhibition, and was subsequently purchased by the Art Union in New York.

In an interview with Eurostar's Chief Executive Nicolas Petrovic in the Financial Times in May 2012, an intention for Eurostar to serve ten new destinations was expressed, including Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Cologne, Lyon, Marseille and Geneva, along with a likely second hub to be created in Brussels.

He soon dropped out once more, and from 1934 to 1936 he was a secretary at the Albanian consulate in Brussels, attached to the personnel office of Queen Mother Sadijé.

FM-2030 ( October 15, 1930, Brussels – July 8, 2000, New York ) was an author, teacher, transhumanist philosopher, futurist and consultant.