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20 May – Commercial treaty with the United States, bringing relations into line with the free trade agreements already signed with France (1861), the United Kingdom (1862) and the Netherlands (1863). 9 June – Partial legislative elections of 1863; 16 July – Multilateral treaty for the redemption of the Scheldt tolls signed in Brussels
History. Nagelmackers was founded in 1747 in Liège by Pierre Nagelmackers (1705-1780) and developed by his son Gérard Nagelmackers (1731-1798). In 1810, it purchased a building on Place de Louvain 12 in Brussels, which it had rebuilt in 1870 on a design by architect Antoine Trappeniers [] and eventually became its head office.
Gravensteen. / 51.057222; 3.720556. The Gravensteen ( Dutch; lit. 'the Counts' rock') is a medieval castle in the city of Ghent, East Flanders in Belgium. The current castle dates from 1180 and was the residence of the Counts of Flanders until 1353. It was subsequently re-purposed as a court, prison, mint, and even as a cotton factory.
Volvo Car Gent (until 2007 known as Volvo Cars Europe Industry N.V.) is an automobile manufacturer located in the port district of Ghent/Gent in western Belgium. By about 2013 the Ghent plant had become the Volvo plant manufacturing most cars. [2] [3] The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Swedish automaker Volvo Personvagnar AB (Volvo ...
The Institut français du Royaume-Uni is a branch of the Institut français, which represents and promotes French learning and culture in the United Kingdom. It is situated in London 's South Kensington at Queensberry Place, a turning off Cromwell Road, facing the Natural History Museum . Founded in 1910, as The Université des Lettres ...
The Suicide Shop (French: Le Magasin des suicides) is a 2012 French adult animated film written and directed by Patrice Leconte and is based on Jean Teule's novel of the same name.
Box office. $190 million [3] An Officer and a Gentleman is a 1982 American romantic drama film [4] directed by Taylor Hackford from a screenplay by Douglas Day Stewart, and starring Richard Gere, Debra Winger, and Louis Gossett Jr. It tells the story of Zack Mayo (Gere), a United States Navy Aviation Officer Candidate who is beginning his ...
The Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée ( CNC; lit. the National Centre for Cinema and the Moving Image) is an agency of the French Ministry of Culture, and is responsible for the production and promotion of cinematic and audiovisual arts in France. The CNC is a publicly owned establishment, with legal and financial autonomy .