Portal:Belgium/Did you know/9
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- ...that the bombardment of Brussels by French troops (ruins pictured) in 1695 was later described by Napoleon Bonaparte as being "as barbarous as it was useless?"
- ...that until the French Revolution, the Belgian village of Moorsel was divided into two distinct sections?
- ...that the installation of an artificial Christmas tree in Brussels prompted an online petition against it with 25,000 signatures?