Famous Inhabitants
- Pippin of Landen, Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia under the Merovingian Kings (7th century)
- Gertrude of Nivelles, Pippin's daughter and abbess of the Nivelles monastery (626-659)
- Johann Tserclaes, Holy Roman Empire general in the Thirty Years' War (1559-1632)
- Louis-Joseph Seutin, doctor and surgeon (1793-1862)
- Jules Louis Guillery, lawyer and politician (1824-1902)
- Henri Delmotte, novelist (1822-1884)
- Didier Theys, car racer (b. 1956)
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Famous quotes containing the words famous and/or inhabitants:
“Towns are full of people, houses full of tenants, hotels full of guests, trains full of travelers, cafés full of customers, parks full of promenaders, consulting-rooms of famous doctors full of patients, theatres full of spectators, and beaches full of bathers. What previously was, in general, no problem, now begins to be an everyday one, namely, to find room.”
—José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955)
“The inhabitants of St. John’s and vicinity are described by an English traveler as “singularly unprepossessing,” and before completing his period he adds, “besides, they are generally very much disaffected to the British crown.” I suspect that that “besides” should have been a “because.””
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)