Show quiet louvain Lou I 1 had a look at the now much talked 0 of louvain Lou quite a i pretty old place wl uh tit its magnificent hotel do ville crowded in by the impressive church in tile the center of the town and its ita innumerable other old gray churches with long sloping eloping roofs tile the place a perfect nest of nuns and friars tile the streets were lined with the high walls and closed windows of convent after convent and huge lusters clusters of monasteries were on the lil hlib s about the town many very newly built and modern and the town was seething with black blach robed priests and brown barefooted and coped nuns tills this waa ivas the great roman catholic center where some soine of the monastic orders have their chief establishments the library of the university so ruthlessly destroyed contained n priceless eat col lection of church documents la A glimpse of before tile the war isabel anderson anderaon in national magazine |