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Hendrik Conscience

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Eating chocolate without a bad conscience?

 

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Binnenkijken bij: Erfgoedbibliotheek Hendrik Conscience

 

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H. Conscience (1812-1883) | Antwerpen, België

 

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200ste verjaardag Hendrik Conscience

 

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The Lion of Flanders, an historic novel by Hendrik Conscience

Henri or Hendrik Conscience was a Belgian author. He is considered the pioneer of Dutch-language literature in Flanders, writing at a time when Belgium was dominated by the French language among the upper classes, in literature and government. Conscience fought as a Belgian revolutionary in 1830 and was a notable writer in the Romanticist style popular in the early 19th century. He is best known for his romantic nationalist novel, De Leeuw van Vlaenderen (1838), inspired by the victory of a Flemish peasant militia over French knights at the 1302 Battle of the Golden Spurs during the Franco-Flemish War.