Show quiet louvain Lou I 1 had bad a look at the now much talked ot of louvain Lou quite a pretty old place with its magnificent hotel do de ville crowded in by the impressive church in the center of the town and its innumerable other old gray churches with long sloping roofs the place a perfect neat of nuns and friars tho the streets were lined with the high walls and closed windows ot of convent after convent and hugs huge clusters of monasteries were on the hills about the town many very newly built and modern and the town was seething with black robed priests and brown barefooted monre monks and coped nuns this was the great roman catholic center where some of the monastic orders ordera have their chief establishments the library of the university so ruthlessly destroyed contained a priceless collection of church documents IA I A glimpse of belgium before the war isabel anderson in national magazine mag zine |