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6 Route 1. LILLE. From London
it contains are among the most important in France, the *PrcruRE
GALLERY being especially rich in examples of the Flemish and
Dutch schools. The other collections include drawings, sculptures,
antiquities, and museums of ethnography and industrial and decor-
ative art. The collections are open to the public daily (except Sat.)
from 10 to 4 or 5. The titles of the pictures and the names of the
artists are attached to each work. For details, see Baedeker’s North-
ern France.
In the Boulevard de la Liberté, beyond the Palais des Beaux-
Arts, at the corner of the Rue Watteau, is the English Church (p.5),
a tasteful Gothic building with stained-glass windows. The Rue de
Valmy leads hence to the S. to the Place Philippe-le-Bon (Pl. E,
5, 6), with the modern Romanesque church of St. Michel and (to
the left) the Quartier des Facultés (Pl. F, 5), accommodating the
faculties of medicine, science, law, and literature of the University
of Lille.
‘The Porte de Paris (Pl. F, G, 5), belonging to the old fortifica~
tions, but spared on their removal, was built in 1682 in the form of
a triumphal arch to commemorate the union of French Flanders
with France. — The late-Gothic church of *St. Maurice (Pl. I, 4;
{4-15th cent.), near the Grand’ Place and the railway-station, is
almost the only building of importance that has survived the wars
of the middle ages.
For further details, see Baedeker’s Northern France.
Beyond Lille the train continues to run towards the HE. About
AM. to the S.. of (704/2M.) Aseq is situated the village of Bouvines,
where Emp. Otho IV. was defeated by Philip Augustus of France in
1214. 731/, M. Baisieur is the last French and (77 M.) Blandain
the first Belgian station, at each of which there is a custom-house.
80 M. Froyennes (p. 82).
82 M. Tournai, see p.82. Thence to Courtrai (3/, hr.), see R. 7.
: From Tournai To Mons via Blaton, 301/2M., railway in 1-2 hrs. (fares
Afr. 70, 3 fr. 20, 1 fr. 90 c.). Route vid Leuze (33!/2 M. in ca, 2 hrs.), see
p. 79. — Near (2!/2 M.) Vaula are the interesting ruins of the so-called
Chateau de César. About 2/2 M. from (i/2 M.) Antoing lies Fontenoy,
where Marshal Saxe, aided by the irish Brigade, gained a great victory
over the Austrians and British under the Duke of Cumberland in 1745.
A cross of Irish granite, erected in 1907, commemorates the victory. The
old Gothic chateau is the seat of the Princess of Ligne. There are numerous
lime-pits and lime-kilns in the neighbourhood. Branch-line to St. Amand,
(see p. 7). — 7 M. Maubray; 81/2 M. Callenelle. — 12 M. Péruwelz is an
industrial town, with 8000 inhab., in an undulating wooded district. A
tramway rungs from the station to (4!/; M.) Bonsecours, a pilgrim resort and
summer resort. About 1/2 M. from Bonsecours, beyond the French frontier,
is the Due de Croy’s chateau L’Hermitage, amid extensive woods. Valen-
ciennes may be reached by tramway from Bonsecours or by railway from
Péeruwelz. Light railway from Péruwelz to Tournai, see p. 7. — At (16 M.)
Blaton we rejoin the line from Leuze to Mons. The next stations are
Harchies, Ville-Pommeroeul, Hautrage-Etat (also a station on the light rail-
way from St. Ghislain to Stambruges), Boussu-Haine, St. Ghislain (p. 79),
Quaregnon-Wasmuel, and Jemappes. — 30!/2 M. Mons, see p. 213. |
