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LIEGE. 26. Route. 253
University.
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description of a painting by Apelles;
128. Jan Fruit; / z, Still-life; 313. J. B. Weenix, Dead hare.
15, 80, 74. L. Defran Trades in old Liege; above, 185. @. de
judith. — 229. J. Putinir (and J. van Cleve), Madonna; 273. J. van
, Landscape ferry; 196. L. Lombard (?), Last Supper (4530);
Bertholet Flémalle, Portrait of himself; 195. L. Lombard, Flute-player.
s VII-VII (entrance by Room X): Plaster casts (the adjoining
pen only on Sunday and during the vacations).
Lairesse, Calumny
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From the §. side of the Place du Théatre (p. 250) two busy
streets, the Ruz pE LA RécENcE and the Ruz pz UNIvVERSITE (PIL. B,
C, 3, 4), lead to the University and the bank of the Meuse. A little
to the left of the first of these streets stands the Church of St. Denis
(Pl. C, 3), founded in 987 by Bishop Notger, though the present
edifice dates almost entirely from the 15th cent., with additions of
the 18th century. An arcade in the S. transept gives access to a
small chapel containing a beautiful winged altar in carved oak, which
was executed about the beginning of the 16th cent. and divided into
{5 compartments, representing (lower row) scenes from the life of
St. Denis, and (above) scenes from the Passion. The modern stained
glass in the choir is by Capronnier.
In the Place Cockerill (Pl. ©, 3), at the end of the Rue de la
Régence to the left, is the Post Office, built in 1900-2 in the Gothic
style. Opposite rises the —
University (Pl. ©, 3, 4, ca. 2500 students), founded in 1817
as the Netherlands State University for the Walloon district (comp.
p. 70), and reorganized in 1835. It is in the Renaissance style,
with a plain sandstone fagade. Some of the buildings at the back
belong to an old Jesuit college, others were built in 1889-93.
They comprise lecture-rooms demic collections, a library (about
250,000 vols. and 1800 MSS.; busts of distinguished professors in
the large hall), a laboratory, and a natural history museum contain-
ing a fine collection of the fossil bones of antediluvian animals found
in the caverns of the environs, especially at Chokier (p. 268) and
Engis (p. 269; adm., April to June, Sun. 9-1). — The Ecole des Mines,
des Arts et Manufactures and an Ecole Electro-Technique (Pl. B, 4;
known as the ‘Institut Montefiore’, after its founder) are connected
with the University (adm. to these by permission from the director).
Amongst the most celebrated professors who have taught here may be
mentioned Emile de Laveleye (1822-92), the economist, Catalan (d. 1894), the
mathemati , Ste. Beuve (d, 1870) and Baron (d. 1862), the literary
historians, J. Th. Lacordaire (1801-70), the anatomist, and André Dumon
(d. 1857), the geologist. A bronze statue of the last-named, by Bug. Simonis,
stands in the Place in front of the University.
A little above the University the Meuse is crossed by the Pont
de la Boverie (Pl. O, 4; 1843), a bridge of four handsome arches,
which leads to the Quartier and Station de Longdoz (p. 245). The
electric tramway No. 2 (p. 246) crosses this bridge.
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