The following sample entries represent a broad level of description, since they correspond to a collection of over 2,000 documents from an architect's firm. The first entry is in display format. The second is a broad-level group record from which the display is drawn. The last is a separate but linked, narrower-level entry, corresponding to a project within the collection. Taken together, these entries provide all core information.
Broad-level group entry in display format:
Office of Werner E. Noffke, Ottawa
Architectural drawings relating primarily to residences and commercial and public buildings in Ottawa and area 1906–1962.
Ottawa, National Archives of Canada, Cartographic and Audio-Visual Archives Division,[1] Noffke, W.E. 77803/7
This collection of 2241 drawings representing 200 projects by Ottawa architect Werner E. Noffke reflects not only the breadth of one man's work but also one city's architecture over a 60-year period. Residences, offices and commercial buildings, exhibition halls, and many churches appear in the collection, along with projects as diverse as buildings for foreign legations. A great deal of Noffke's work was done for the Government of Canada. While Noffke's early work was typical of Ottawa building of the time, his later designs show an appreciation of modern architectural modes and an eagerness to experiment with new styles. Noffke's job book, in which are listed the project number, names of clients, and prices, complements the drawings in this accession.
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Broad-level group record from which the preceding display entry is drawn:
Group/Item Identification
Repository Name: |
National Archives of Canada |
Repository Geographic Location: |
Canada
Ontario
Ottowa |
Administrative Unit: |
Cartographic and Audio-Visual Archives Division |
Group/Item ID: |
Noffke, W.E. 77803/7 |
Descriptive Title: |
Architectural drawings relating primarily to residences and commercial and public buildings in Ottawa and area. |
Document Classification
Catalogue Level: |
group |
Document Type: |
architectural documents |
Origin/Maker
Responsibility Description: |
Office of Werner E. Noffke[2] |
Name: |
Werner E. Noffke |
Role (Broad): |
administrative origin |
Descriptive Date: |
1906–1962 |
Earliest Date: |
1906 |
Latest Date: |
1962 |
Locus/Location: |
Canada
Ontario
Ottowa |
Related People/Corporate Bodies
Related Person/Corporate Body Description: |
Werner E. Noffke |
Related Person/Corporate Body Name Description: |
Noffke, Werner E. |
Related Role: |
Architect |
Dates of Execution
Descriptive Date: |
1906–1962 |
Earliest Date: |
1906 |
Latest Date: |
1962 |
Descriptive Note
This collection of 2241 drawings representing 200 projects by Ottawa architect Werner E. Noffke reflects not only the breadth of one man's work but also one city's architecture over a 60-year period. Residences, offices and commercial buildings, exhibition halls, and many churches appear in the collection, along with projects as diverse as buildings for foreign legations. A great deal of Noffke's work was done for the Government of Canada. While Noffke's early work was typical of Ottawa building of the time, his later designs show an appreciation of modern architectural modes and an eagerness to experiment with new styles. Noffke's job book, in which are listed the project number, names of clients, and prices, complements the drawings in this accession.
Narrower-level core entry within the group:[3]
Group/Item Identification
Repository Name Description: |
National Archives of Canada |
Repository Geographic Location: |
Canada
Ontario
Ottowa |
Administrative Unit: |
Cartographic and Audio-Visual Archives Division |
Group/Item ID: |
Noffke, W.E. 77803/7 Job. 142 |
Descriptive Title: |
Architectural drawings relating to the Bank of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
Document Classification
Catalogue Level: |
group |
Document Type: |
architectural drawings |
Origin/Maker
Responsibility Description: |
Office of Northwood and Noffke |
Name: |
Northwood and Noffke |
role (broad): |
Administrative Origin |
Descriptive Date: |
1901–1908 |
Earliest Date: |
1901 |
Latest Date: |
1908 |
Locus/Location: |
Canada
Ontario
Ottowa |
Date of Execution
Descriptive Date: |
July 18, 1906 |
Earliest Date: |
1906 |
Latest Date: |
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Descriptive Note
The architectural drawings in this project include elevations and floor plans of the bank.
Subject/Built Work Identification
Subject/Built Work Name: |
Bank of Ottawa |
Subject/Built Work Location: |
Canada
Ontario
Ottowa
Bank Street
186 |
Subject/Built Work Characteristics
Subject/Built Work Type (by function/form): |
bank
temple banks |
Broad-level entry for another group, with some optional categories:
Group/Item Identification
REPOSITORY NAME: |
Centre Canadien d'Architecture/Canadian Centre for Architecture |
REPOSITORY GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION: |
Canada
Québec
Montréal |
ADMINISTRATIVE UNIT LOCATION: |
Prints and Drawings |
GROUP/ITEM ID: |
DR1986:0257-DR1986:0264 |
REPOSITORY TITLE: |
Seven drawings, with a table of contents, for glass conservatories at the Château de Ciergnon, Belgium |
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: |
Seven drawings, with a table of contents, for glass conservatories at the Château de Ciergnon, Belgium |
INSCRIBED TITLE: |
Château de Ciergnon / Serres de réception |
Document Classification
CATALOGUE LEVEL: |
group |
GROUP TYPE: |
project |
EXTENT: |
7 drawings, with a table of contents |
DOCUMENT TYPE: |
manuscript |
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architectural drawings |
Origin/Maker
RESPONSIBILITY DESCRIPTION: |
Alphonse Balat |
NAME: |
Balat, Alphonse |
ROLE (BROAD) : |
maker |
Purpose
PURPOSE DESCRIPTION: |
finished design drawings, some with graphite pentimenti |
PURPOSE (BROAD) : |
working drawings |
PURPOSE (NARROW) : |
design drawings |
Method of Representation/Point of View
METHOD/VIEW (BROAD): |
orthographic drawings
plans
elevations
sections |
Physical Characteristics
TECHNIQUE, MEDIUM, AND SUPPORT DESCRIPTION: |
Table of contents is written in pen and black ink on blue laid paper; drawings are in various combinations of pen and black and blue ink and blue, pink or red coloured pencils, some with graphite, some with graphite pentimenti; all are on transparent wove paper laid down on transparent laid paper |
TECHNIQUE : |
pen
coloured pencil
pencil |
MEDIUM : |
ink
coloured pencil
graphite |
SUPPORT : |
wove paper |
WATERMARK: |
present (only on table of contents) |
INSCRIPTION DESCRIPTION: |
Table of contents: inscribed, by the draughtsman?, in pen and black ink, u.l.: "I. / Château de Ciergnon / Serres de réception''; c.: "Le projet / est exposé en sept feuilles de dessins / comme suit: / I Plan général / II Plan du hall-jardin-d'hiver / III Plan de la couverture. w[?] / IV Coupe et élévation longitudinale. w[?] / V Plan de la salle à manger / VI Coupe et élévation de dèto / VII Développement et coupe transversale, w[?] / (toiture doublés au dessus[?] la table.) / L'architecte de S[a]. M[ajesté]. / Alphonse Balat[?]''; l.l.: "Bruxelles le 31 mars 1894''
All drawings: inscribed, by the draughtsman ? in pen and brown ink, with drawing's number, title, date and signature; some with dimensions. |
INSCRIPTION : |
inscribed |
SCALE DESCRIPTION : |
inscribed scale on each drawing |
SCALE: |
scales |
DIMENSIONS DESCRIPTION: |
Sheets range in size from 28.3 x 41.2 cm to 35.9 x 66.4 cm |
Date of Execution
DESCRIPTIVE DATE : |
1894 |
EARLIEST DATE : |
1894 |
LATEST DATE: |
1894 |
Descriptive Note
These seven drawings comprise a complete set of design drawings for a complex of "serres de réception'' (glass conservatories) at the Château de Ciergnon in Namur province, Belgium. The Château de Ciergnon, a 19th-century structure located on the right bank of the River Lesse, was a summer residence of the Belgian royal family.
The architect of this proposal was almost certainly Alphonse Balat (Willis, 16 February 1987). Although difficult to read, the signature that appears on each of the eight sheets matches well with his name. On the sheet bearing the table of contents, the signature is preceded by the title "L'architecte de S[a]. M[ajesté]."; Balat was architect to Leopold II, King of Belgium (1865-1909) until his death in 1895, one year after these seven drawings were signed and dated. Moreover, Balat is known to have performed work at the Château de Ciergnon (Clément, 67).
The question of attribution is, perhaps, put beyond doubt by the fact that Balat is best known as the designer of several such glass houses in Belgium (for a catalogue of Balat's executed glass houses, see Kohlmaier and Sartory, 208-214), the most important of which are located in the Royal Park at Laeken and were designed and built in several phases (1865-1895). The Laeken conservatories were among the most ambitious glass buildings constructed during the 19th century; they are linked by almost a mile of corridors and comprise ten acres of glass surface alone. In comparison, the Ciergnon project is much less monumental. The focus of the design, and the subject of six of the seven drawings, is a large axial complex consisting of a winter garden and a dining room (to seat 150 guests). The plan of this complex is similar to, though much smaller than, that at Laeken. A general plan shows the layout of the entire project, with its long glazed corridor, again similar to corridors at Laeken, linking the main buildings to a railroad line. There is, at present, no evidence that the project was ever built.
Related Groups/Items
The Archives du Palais Royal in Brussels contain 11 sheets (LC, laisse 1) apparently related to the set of eight recorded here (Willis, 30 April 1987).
Other drawings by Balat can be found in the archives of the City of Brussels, and in the Royal Albert Library, Cabinet des Estampes, also in Brussels.
Provenance
PROVENANCE DESCRIPTION : |
Purchased, 1986 |
Internal Documentation
NOTE : |
Catalogued by: |
Richard Hemphill, 31. VII.1986 |
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Revised by: |
David W. Booth, 6.VI.1991 (existing data reformatted and indexed, and fields in intellectual analysis added or corrected) |
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Revised by: |
Jennifer Trant, 8.I.1991 (record reformatted according to FDA Guidelines) |
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Record Status: |
fully catalogued |
SOURCES: |
Clément, Jules.Alphonse Balat, architecte du roi (1819-1895) (Brussels: Académie royale de Belgique, 1956). |
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Dictionnaire biographique illustré des artistes en Belgique depuis 1830, 1989, s.v. "Balat, Alphonse". Kohlmaier, Georg and Sartory, Barna von. |
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Houses of Glass: A Nineteenth-Century Building Type, transl. John C. Harvey (Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1986). |
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Koppelkamm, Stefan. Glasshouses and Wintergardens of the Nineteenth Century, transl. Katherine Talbot (New York: Rizzoli, 1981). |
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Macmillan, s.v. "Balat, Alphonse". |
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Thieme-Becker, s.v. "Balat, Alphonse. |
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Willis, A. Memo to Mimi Cazort, Curator of Prints and Drawings, 16 February 1987 (see object file; discusses attribution). |
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Willis, A. Memo to Mimi Cazort, Curator of Prints and Drawings, 30 April 1987 (see object file; discusses related works). |
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Woods, May and Warren, Arete Swartz. Glass Houses: A History of Greenhouses, Orangeries and Conservatories (New York: Rizzoli, 1988). |
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CREDIT LINE : |
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal |
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RESTRICTIONS: |
Available for consultation by qualified researchers. |
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REPRODUCTIONS : |
Black and white photographs available of all drawings; some black and white details; some 35mm colour slides. |
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Subject/Built Work Identification
SUBJECT/BUILT WORK NAME : |
Château de Ciergnon
Conservatory |
ALTERNATE SUBJECT/BUILT WORK NAME : |
Château de Ciergnon
Serres de réception |
SUBJECT/BUILT WORK LOCATION : |
Belgium
Namur
Ciergnon |
Subject/Built Work Characteristics
SUBJECT/BUILT WORK DESCRIPTION: |
This complex of "serres de réception" (glass conservatories) was designed by Alphonse Balat for the Château de Ciergnon in Namur province, Belgium, a 19th-century structure located on the right bank of the River Lesse, which was a summer residence of the Belgian royal family. The focus of the design, and the subject of six of the seven drawings, is a large axial complex consisting of a winter garden and a dining room (to seat 150 guests). The plan of this complex is similar to, though much smaller than, that at Laeken, the most important of the glass houses in Belgium designed by Alphonse Balat and built in several phases (1865-1895). A general plan shows the layout of the entire project, with its long glazed corridor, again similar to corridors at Laeken, linking the main buildings to a railroad line. There is, at present, no evidence that the project was ever built. |
SUBJECT/BUILT WORK TYPE (BY FUNCTION/FORM) LOCATION: |
conservatories
greenhouses
glass buildings
axial plan
dining room |
MATERIALS: |
glass |
SUBJECT/BUILT WORK DESCRIPTIVE DATE: |
designed 1894 |
SUBJECT/BUILT WORK EARLIEST DATE: |
1894 |
SUBJECT/BUILT WORK LATEST DATE: |
1894 |
Related People/Corporate Bodies
RELATED PERSON/
CORPORATE BODY: |
Alphonse Balat |
RELATED PERSON/
CORPORATE BODY NAME DESCRIPTION: |
Balat, Alphonse |
RELATED ROLE: |
architect |
RELATED PERSON/
CORPORATE BODY DESCRIPTION: |
Leopold II, King of the Belgians |
RELATED PERSON/
CORPORATE BODY NAME DESCRIPTION: |
Leopold II, King of the Belgians |
RELATED ROLE: |
client |
Entry for an item from the group just described:
Group/Item Identification
REPOSITORY NAME: |
Centre Canadien d'Architecture/Canadian Centre for Architecture |
REPOSITORY GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION: |
Canada
Québec
Montréal |
ADMINISTRATIVE UNIT: |
Prints and Drawings |
GROUP/ITEM ID: |
DR1986:0261 |
REPOSITORY TITLE: |
Elevation and longitudinal section for a proposed winter garden at the Château de Ciergnon, Belgium |
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: |
Elevation and longitudinal section for a proposed winter garden at the Château de Ciergnon, Belgium |
INSCRIBED TITLE: |
Château de Ciergnon / Serres de réception / Hall-jardin-d'hiver / Coupe longitudinale |
Document Classification
CATALOGUE LEVEL: |
item |
DOCUMENT TYPE: |
architectural drawing |
Origin/Maker
RESPONSIBILITY DESCRIPTION: |
Alphonse Balat |
NAME: |
Balat, Alphonse |
ROLE (BROAD) : |
maker |
ROLE (NARROW) : |
draughtsman |
Purpose
PURPOSE DESCRIPTION: |
finished design drawing with graphite pentimenti |
PURPOSE (BROAD): |
working drawing |
PURPOSE (NARROW) ): |
design drawing |
Method of Representation/Point of View
METHOD/VIEW (BROAD): |
orthographic drawing
section
elevation |
METHOD/VIEW (NARROW) ): |
longitudinal section |
Physical Characteristics
TECHNIQUE, MEDIUM, AND SUPPORT DESCRIPTION: |
pen and black and blue ink with blue and red coloured pencil and graphite pentimenti on transparent wove paper, laid down on transparent laid paper |
TECHNIQUE DESCRIPTION: |
pen
coloured pencil
pencil |
MEDIUM: |
black ink
blue ink
graphite
blue coloured pencil
red coloured pencil |
SUPPORT: |
wove paper |
WATERMARK: |
none |
INSCRIPTION DESCRIPTION: |
inscribed, by the draughtsman ?, in pen and brown ink, u.l.: "PL.IV. Château de Ciergnon / Serres de réception / Hall-jardin-d'hiver. / Coupe longitudinale. / 31 mars 1894. / Alphonse Balat [?]"; by the draughtsman, in pen and black ink, c.: with dimensions |
SCALE DESCRIPTION: |
inscribed scale, in pen and black ink, l.r.: "Echelle de 0.005 par me" |
SCALE: |
scale |
DIMENSIONS DESCRIPTION: |
sheet: 28.5 x 41.1 cm |
HEIGHT: |
28.5 |
WIDTH: |
41.1 |
UNIT OF MEASUREMENT: |
cm |
Date of Execution
DESCRIPTIVE DATE: |
1894 |
EARLIEST DATE: |
1894 |
LATEST DATE: |
1894 |
Descriptive Note
A longitudinal section and an elevation for the proposed winter garden from a complex of "serres de réception" (glass conservatories) at the Château de Ciergnon in Namur province, Belgium.
Related Groups/Items
The same winter garden is described in plan on DR1986:0259 and DR1986:0260.
Provenance
PROVENANCE DESCRIPTION: |
Purchased, 1986 |
Internal Documentation
NOTE: |
Catalogued by: |
Richard Hemphill, 31.VII.1986 |
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Revised by: |
David W. Booth, 7.VI.1991 (existing data reformatted and indexed, and fields in intellectual analysis added or corrected) |
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Revised by: |
Jennifer Trant, 8.I.1992 (record reformatted according to FDA Guidelines) |
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Record Status: |
fully catalogued |
SOURCES: |
Clément, Jules. Alphonse Balat, architecte du roi (1819-1895) (Brussels: Académie royale de Belgique, 1956). |
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Dictionnaire biographique illustré des artistes en Belgique depuis 1830, 1989, |
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s.v. "Balat, Alphonse". |
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Kohlmaier, Georg and Sartory, Barna von. Houses of Glass: A Nineteenth-Century Building Type, transl. John C. Harvey (Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1986). |
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Koppelkamm, Stefan. Glasshouses and Wintergardens of the Nineteenth Century, transl. Katherine Talbot (New York: Rizzoli, 1981). |
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Macmillan, s.v."Balat, Alphonse". |
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Thieme-Becker, s.v. "Balat, Alphonse". |
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Willis, A. Memo to Mimi Cazort, Curator of Prints and Drawings, 16 February 1987 (see object file; discusses attribution). |
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Willis, A. Memo to Mimi Cazort, Curator of Prints and Drawings, 30 April 1987 (see object file; discusses related works). |
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Woods, May and Warren, Arete Swartz. Glass Houses: A History of Greenhouses, Orangeries and Conservatories (New York: Rizzoli, 1988). |
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CREDIT LINE: |
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal |
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RESTRICTIONS: |
Available for consultation by qualified researchers |
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REPRODUCTIONS: |
Black and white photograph; black and white photographs of details; 35mm colour slide |
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Subject/Built Work Identification
SUBJECT/BUILT WORK NAME: |
Château de Ciergnon
Conservatory |
ALTERNATE SUBJECT/BUILT WORK NAME: |
Château de Ciergnon
Serres de réception |
SUBJECT/BUILT WORK LOCATION NAME: |
Belgium
Namur
Ciergnon |
Subject/Built Work Characteristics
SUBJECT/BUILT WORK DESCRIPTION: |
This winter garden forms part of a complex of "serres de réception" (glass conservatories) designed by Alphonse Balat for the Château de Ciergnon in Namur province, Belgium, a 19th-century structure located on the right bank of the River Lesse, which was a summer residence of the Belgian royal family. Along with a dining room (to seat 150 guests) it forms the focus of the large axial complex. There is, at present, no evidence that the project was ever built. |
SUBJECT/BUILT WORK TYPE (BY FUNCTION/FORM): |
conservatories
greenhouses
glass buildings
winter garden
glass |
SUBJECT/BUILT WORK DESCRIPTIVE DATE: |
designed 1894 |
SUBJECT/BUILT WORK EARLIEST DATE: |
1894 |
SUBJECT/BUILT WORK LATEST DATE: |
1894 |
Related People/Corporate Bodies
RELATED PERSON/
CORPORATE BODY DESCRIPTION: |
Alphonse Balat |
RELATED PERSON/
CORPORATE BODY NAME: |
Balat, Alphonse |
RELATED ROLE: |
architect |
RELATED PERSON/
CORPORATE BODY DESCRIPTION: |
Leopold II, King of the Belgians |
RELATED PERSON/
CORPORATE BODY NAME DESCRIPTION: |
Leopold II, King of the Belgians |
RELATED ROLE: |
client |
Personal/Corporate Names
DESCRIPTIVE NAME: |
Alphonse Balat |
NAME: |
Balat, Alphonse |
ALTERNATE NAME(S) : |
Balat, Alphonse Hubert François |
Biographical/Corporate History
BIOGRAPHICAL/
CORPORATE DESCRIPTIVE NOTE: |
Born Cognelée, Belgium, 1818 or 1819; died Ixelles-les-Bruxelles, Belgium, 1895. Clément gives Balat's birthdate as 1819; all others give the date as 1818. (See Clément, Jules. Alphonse Balat, architecte du roi (1819-1895) (Bruxelles: Académie royale de Belgique, 1956; Macmillan; Thieme-Becker; Dictionnaire biographique illustré des artistes en Belgique depuis 1830, 1987; not found in LC) |
LIFE ROLE(S) : |
architect |
LOCUS/LOCATION : |
Belgium |
DESCRIPTIVE DATE OF EXISTENCE : |
1818 or 1819-1895 |
EARLIEST DATE OF EXISTENCE : |
1818 |
LATEST DATE OF EXISTENCE : |
1895 |
Personal/Corporate Names
DESCRIPTIVE NAME: |
Leopold II, King of the Belgians |
NAME: |
Leopold II, King of the Belgians |
ALTERNATE NAME(S) : |
Leopold II, King of Belgium |
Biographical/Corporate History
BIOGRAPHICAL/
CORPORATE DESCRIPTIVE NOTE: |
Born Brussels, Belgium, 1835; died Laeken, Belgium, 1909. (See LC, New Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th ed. 1989; Encyclopédie français, 1971.) |
LIFE ROLE(S) : |
king |
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patron |
LOCUS/LOCATION: |
Belgium |
DESCRIPTIVE DATE OF EXISTENCE: |
1835-1909 |
EARLIEST DATE OF EXISTENCE: |
1835 |
LATEST DATE OF EXISTENCE: |
1909 |
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