Brakel - Famous Inhabitants

Famous Inhabitants

  • Herman De Croo, politician, former president of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives
  • Robbie McEwen, cyclist, won 12 stages in the Tour de France
  • Peter van Petegem, cyclist, won Paris–Roubaix and the Ronde van Vlaanderen
  • Lietbertus, bishop of Cambrai during the 11th century

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Famous quotes containing the words famous and/or inhabitants:

    “John Gilpin was a citizen
    Of credit and renown,
    A train-band captain eke was he
    Of famous London town.”
    —William Cowper (1731–1800)

    “Life’s so ordinary that literature has to deal with the exceptional. Exceptional talent, power, social position, wealth.... Drama begins where there’s freedom of choice. And freedom of choice begins when social or psychological conditions are exceptional. That’s why the inhabitants of imaginative literature have always been recruited from the pages of Who’s Who.”
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