In 1843, while future bestseller Charlotte Brontë was in Brussels perfecting her French, she was gifted her a Napoleonic relic: a fragment of the emperor’s coffin.
Sent from Spain to rule the Habsburg Netherlands from Brussels, Archdukes Isabella and Albert brought peace and stability to the Low Countries.
The icons of English literature - whose passionate, eternal love stories were among the most-read novels of the 19th century - spent a vital chapter of their lives in Belgium.
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